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Classical analogue of the Unruh effect

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 Added by Ulf Leonhardt
 Publication date 2017
  fields Physics
and research's language is English




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In the Unruh effect an observer with constant acceleration perceives the quantum vacuum as thermal radiation. The Unruh effect has been believed to be a pure quantum phenomenon, but here we show theoretically how the effect arises from the classical correlation of noise. We demonstrate this idea with a simple experiment on water waves where we see the first indications of a Planck spectrum in the correlation energy.



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