Fulling Non-uniqueness and the Unruh Effect: A Primer on Some Aspects of Quantum Field Theory.
We discuss the intertwined topics of Fulling non-uniqueness and the Unruh effect. The Fulling quantization, which is in some sense the natural one for an observer uniformly accelerated through Minkowski spacetime to adopt, is often heralded as a quantization of the Klein-Gordon field which is both p...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 164 - 203 |
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