Difference between Hawking and Unruh radiation derived from studies about pair production by lasers in vacuum

Timothy J. Stait-Gardner; Reynaldo Castillo

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Difference between Hawking and Unruh radiation derived from studies about pair production by lasers in vacuum

Timothy J. Stait-Gardner, Reynaldo Castillo

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Abstract

Laser acceleration of electrons in laser fields of intensities above 1028 W/cm2 were found to be in the same range as acceleration at the surface of black holes, where the laser intensities are in the range of pair production in vacuum due to vacuum polarization. The results in connection with the black holes arrived at similarities to the Hawking and Unruh radiation. We present here results based on the thermodynamics of the vacuum fluctuations that there is a difference between Hawking and Unruh effects in connection with the Casimir effect in view of the vacuum properties for laser produced pairs in a vacuum.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	579-603
Journal	Laser and Particle Beams
Volume	24
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263034606060770
Publication status	Published - Oct 2006

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Casimir effect
Hawking effect
Unruh effect
electrons
quantum electrodynamics
vacuum fluctuations

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Difference between Hawking and Unruh radiation derived from studies about pair production by lasers in vacuum

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