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2010/11/17, Eduardo Martín Martínez (CSIC, Madrid)

Place:  Sala de Seminarios del Departamento de Física Teórica e Historia de la Ciencia
Time: 12:30h.
Title: Using Berry's phase to detect the Unruh effect at lower accelerations

Abstract
We show that a detector moving in a spacetime acquires a Berry phase that, due to the Unruh effect, is different for an inertial and an accelerated detector. We take advantage of this phenomenon to propose a new method to directly measure the Unruh effect for accelerations more than 10^9 times smaller than previous proposals sustained only for times of nanoseconds