Nonlocal Effects in Black Body Radiation

TL;DR

This paper explores how nonlocal electrodynamics affects the perception of blackbody radiation by uniformly accelerated observers, revealing transient effects most prominent during initial acceleration phases.

Contribution

It introduces a nonlocal formalism to modify Maxwell's equations, analyzing the impact on blackbody radiation perception by accelerated observers, which is a novel approach.

Findings

Nonlocal effects are transient and diminish over time.

Most significant effects occur during the initial acceleration period.

The theory modifies the standard perception of electromagnetic fields by accelerated observers.

Abstract

Nonlocal electrodynamics is a formalism developed to include nonlocal effects in the measurement process caused by the non-inertial state of the observers. This theory modifies Maxwell's electrodynamics by eliminating the hypothesis of locality that assumes an accelerated observer simultaneously equivalent to a comoving inertial frame of reference. In this scenario, the transformation between an inertial and accelerated observer is generalized which affects the properties of physical fields. In particular, we analyze how an uniformly accelerated observer perceives a homogeneous and isotropic blackbody radiation. We show that all nonlocal effects are transient and most relevant in the first period of acceleration.