Superluminal dispersion relations and the Unruh effect

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 77, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Rinaldi, Massimiliano ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

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EID: 45749098114     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.77.124029     Document Type: Article

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