Unruh effect
Efecto Unruh
- Date
- 1976 · confidence high
- Place
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Credited to
- W. G. Unruh
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A quantum-field-theory prediction that a uniformly accelerating observer in vacuum perceives a thermal bath of particles that an inertial observer does not detect, described by Stephen Fulling (1973), Paul Davies (1975), and W. G. Unruh (1976).
What it led to
- Quantum field theory in curved spacetime
- Debate on the nature of the quantum vacuum
- Studies of particle-accelerator radiation
- Theoretical physics of quantum gravity