paper

Vacuum friction of uniformly accelerated detector

arXiv:1805.02888

Abstract

The analysis of uniformly longitudinally extended detector is performed and it is shown that the response of such a detector does not differ from the response of the Unruh detector, but the its excitation is caused not by the thermal bath, but by interaction with the fluctuations of the quantum field by virtual quanta.

English version of preprint AN USSR, Institute of Physics, (1986) Preprint No. 30, 34 p. (on russian)