Seminarium Teorii Oddziaływań Elementarnych
sala 1.01, ul. Pasteura 5
Andrzej Dragan (IFT UW)
Ideal clocks - a convenient fiction
No device built according to the rules of quantum field theory canmeasure proper time along its path. Highly accelerated quantum clocksexperience the Unruh effect, which inevitably influences their timerate. Thiscontradicts the concept of an ideal clock, whose rate should onlydepend on the instantaneous velocity.