Acceleration radiation and the Planck scale
arXiv:0802.3920 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.77.104034
Abstract
A uniformly accelerating observer perceives the Minkowski vacuum state as a thermal bath of radiation. We point out that this field-theory effect can be derived, for any dimension higher than two, without actually invoking very high energy physics. This supports the view that this phenomenon is robust against Planck-scale physics and, therefore, should be compatible with any underlying microscopic theory.
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