Can an Unruh detector feel a cosmic string?

A. H. Bilge*, M. Hortaçsu, N. Özdemir

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Abstract

Unruh's detector calculation is used to study the effect of the defect angle β in a space-time with a cosmic string for both the excitation and deexcitation cases. It is found that a rotating detector results in a non-zero effect for both finite (small) and infinite (large) time.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)861-876
Number of pages16
JournalGeneral Relativity and Gravitation
Volume30
Issue number6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1998

Keywords

  • Unruh detector response function

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