Horizon temperature without space-time
Published on:
August 18, 2020
Abstract
It is shown how the characteristic thermal effects that observers experience in space-times possessing an event horizon, can manifest already in a simple quantum system with affine symmetry living on the real line. The derivation presented is essentially group theoretic in nature: a thermal state emerges naturally when comparing different representations of the group of affine transformations of the real line. The freedom in the choice of different notions of translation generators is the key to the Unruh effect "on a line" we describe.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.376.0227
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