Particle detectors, geodesic motion and the equivalence principle
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It is shown that quantum particle detectors are not reliable probes of spacetime structure. In particular, they fail to distinguish between inertial and non-inertial motion in a general spacetime. To prove this, we consider detectors undergoing circular motion in an arbitrary static spherically symmetric spacetime, and give a necessary and sufficient condition for the response function to vanis...
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عنوان ژورنال: Classical and Quantum Gravity
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0264-9381,1361-6382
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/21/2/008