English Explanatory Dictionary

Unruh effect

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A theoretical prediction in quantum field theory that an observer who is uniformly accelerating through empty space will perceive a thermal bath.

Word forms

Unruh effect Unruh effects

Etymology

Named after W. G. Unruh who described the effect in 1976.

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