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gr-qc2007★ 44 cited
Do static atoms outside a Schwarzschild black hole spontaneously excite?
Hongwei Yu, Wenting Zhou
The spontaneous excitation of a two-level atom held static outside a four dimensional Schwarzschild black hole and in interaction with a massless scalar field in the Boulware, Unru…
hep-th2007★ 29 cited
Relationship between Hawking radiation from black holes and spontaneous excitation of atoms
Hongwei Yu, Wenting Zhou
Using the formalism that separates the contributions of vacuum fluctuations and radiation reaction to the rate of change of the mean atomic energy, we show that a two-level atom in…