TEMPERATURE MEASURED BY A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED OBSERVER

Publication Date

1984

Journal or Book Title

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Abstract

By use of elementary quantum‐mechanical arguments we demonstrate how an observer with uniform acceleration a perceives himself as immersed in a heat bath of temperature kT=aℏ/2πc.

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Published version is located at http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v52/i8/p730_s1

Pages

730-734

Volume

52

Issue

8

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