Minkowski vacuum in Rindler spacetime and Unruh thermal state for Dirac fields

Abstract

We consider a free Dirac field in flat spacetime and we derive the representation of the Minkowski vacuum as an element of the Rindler-Fock space. We also compute the statistical operator obtained by tracing away the left wedge. We detail the resulting thermal state for fermionic particles.

References in corpus (3)

• The Unruh effect and its applications
• Non-relativistic limit of scalar and Dirac fields in curved spacetime
• Frame-dependence of the non-relativistic limit of quantum fields

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