QUANTUM POWER: A LORENTZ INVARIANT APPROACH TO HAWKING RADIATION

Abstract

The Equivalence Principle teaches us that gravitation, acceleration, and curvature are equivalent. Moreover we know that external effects on quantum fields creates par ticles, and this ties together black hole particle produc tion, thermal baths observed by accelerating observers, and moving mirror acceleration radiation, e.g. the Hawk ing [1], Unruh [2], and Davies-Fulling [3] effects. How ever, we also know that constant acceleration is insuf ficient: an electron sitting on a laboratory table in an eternal constant gravitational field of the Earth will not radiate. In the same way, an eternally exactly uniformly accelerating accelerated boundary (moving mirror) will not emit energy to an observer at infinity, e.g. [4]. Another aspect of great interest [5] is that asymptot ically static mirrors preserve unitarity and information [6]. We explore a model that merges these two regimes of uniform acceleration and zero acceleration and show that this system can radiate particles for an extended time with constant power. The system will not only pre serve information but emit thermal energy, conserve total radiated energy, and emit finite total particles, without infrared divergence. This model can serve as an analog for complete black hole evaporation.