Regarding the Rotational Unruh Effect

Abstract

We study the rotational Unruh effect by identifying the pseudodynamics which emerges when fundamental spacetime symmetries are violated. We show that there is, fundamentally, no rotational Unruh effect, in agreement with the first explicit calculations of the literature, and that, when such an effect has been claimed to exist in later articles, its origin traces back to the derivation of the standard Unruh effect involving linear acceleration. Such a linear Unruh effect intrudes because the chosen reference frames do not respect the cylindrical symmetry of the system, and thus the analyses require Lorentz boosts. Our study also confirms previous findings that the Unruh effect is a consequence of the pseudodynamics which arises because Instant-Form dynamics explicitly breaks a fundamental symmetry of spacetime: Poincaré invariance.