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Emission of pairs of Minkowski photons through the lens of the Unruh effect
- Abstract:
- We discuss the emission of pairs of photons by charges with generic worldlines in the Minkowski vacuum from the viewpoint of inertial observers and interpret them from the perspective of Rindler observers. We show that the emission of pairs of Minkowski photons corresponds, in general, to three distinct processes according to Rindler observers: scattering, and emission and absorption of pairs of Rindler photons. In the special case of uniformly accelerated charges, the radiation observed in the inertial frame can be fully described by the scattering channel in the Rindler frame. Therefore, the emission of pairs of Minkowski photons—commonly referred to as Unruh radiation—can be seen as further evidence supporting the Unruh effect.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1103/bj1n-5qc8
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/0439y7842
- Grant:
- EP/X01133X/1
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Journal:
- Physical Review D More from this journal
- Volume:
- 113
- Issue:
- 2
- Article number:
- 025014
- Publication date:
- 2026-01-26
- Acceptance date:
- 2025-12-22
- DOI:
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2470-0029
- ISSN:
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2470-0010
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English
- Pubs id:
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2355210
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- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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- The author accepted manuscript (AAM) of this paper has been made available under the University of Oxford's Open Access Publications Policy, and a CC BY public copyright licence has been applied.
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