Non-inertial quantum mechanical fluctuations
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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. To appear as a chapter in the book Artificial Black Holes (World Scientific) edited by M. Novello, M. Visser, and G. Volovik.
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