2000/12/31 by H. C. Rosu
Physics and Astronomy · #gr-qc
published as Artificial Black Holes (World Scientific, 2002) pp 307-334 · 21 pages, 1 figure, final version to appear in the book edited by Novello, Visser, Volovik on artificial black holes
arxiv created 2001/11/05 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Zero point quantum fluctuations as seen from non-inertial reference frames are of interest for several reasons. In particular, because phenomena such as Unruh radiation (acceleration radiation) and Hawking radiation (quantum leakage from a black hole) depend intrinsically on both quantum zero-point fluctuations and some appropriate notion of an accelerating vacuum state, any experimental test of zero-point fluctuations in non-inertial frames is implicitly a test of the foundations of quantum field theory, and the Unruh and Hawking effects