"TEMPERATURE MEASURED BY A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED OBSERVER" by JF Donoghue

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TEMPERATURE MEASURED BY A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED OBSERVER

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

JF Donoghue
BR Holstein

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Publication Date

1984

Abstract

By use of elementary quantum‐mechanical arguments we demonstrate how an observer with uniform acceleration a perceives himself as immersed in a heat bath of temperature kT=aℏ/2πc.

Disciplines

Physics

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Published version is located at http://ajp.aapt.org/resource/1/ajpias/v52/i8/p730_s1

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730-734

Citation Information

JF Donoghue and BR Holstein. "TEMPERATURE MEASURED BY A UNIFORMLY ACCELERATED OBSERVER" AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICS Vol. 52 Iss. 8 (1984)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/barry_holstein/148/