Schwinger vs Unruh

TL;DR

This paper reveals that the temperatures associated with the Unruh effect, Gibbons-Hawking radiation, and Hawking radiation are doubled due to process coherence, linking Schwinger pair production with the Unruh effect.

Contribution

It demonstrates the factor of two increase in these temperatures and connects Schwinger pair production with the Unruh effect through process coherence.

Findings

Temperatures are doubled compared to traditional values.

Coherence of processes explains the temperature factor.

Links Schwinger pair production to the Unruh effect.

Abstract

It is shown that the temperatures which characterise the Unruh effect, the Gibbons-Hawking radiation from the de Sitter cosmological horizon and the Hawking radiation from the black hole horizon acquire the extra factor 2 compared with their traditional values. The reason for that is the coherence of different processes. The combination of the coherent processes also allows us to make the connection between the Schwinger pair production and the Unruh effect.