2000/09/15 by R. D. M. De Paola, R D M De Paola, De Paola, R. D. M. +2
Physics and Astronomy · #Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies #FOS: Physical sciences #General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0009058
18 pages, notations for the Green's functions are corrected only. ubmitted to Classical and Quantum Gravity
openalex publication_date 2000/09/15 · arxiv created 2000/10/19 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In this work we consider a quantum analog of Newton's bucket experiment in a flat spacetime: we take an Unruh-DeWitt detector in interaction with a real massless scalar field. We calculate the detector's excitation rate when it is uniformly rotating around some fixed point and the field is prepared in the Minkowski vacuum and also when the detector is inertial and the field is in the Trocheries-Takeno vacuum state. These results are compared and the relations with a quantum analog of Mach's principle are discussed.