Phys. Rev. Lett. 36, 999 - 1001 (1976)Particle Creation by Gravitational Fields |
PRL Celebrates 50 Years
This Week's Milestone Letters are from 1984: |
N. M. J. Woodhouse *
Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
Received 26 January 1976
This paper presents a new and generally covariant approach to quantum field theory in curved space-time. Previously unknown expressions are obtained for particle creation amplitudes in oscillating gravitational fields. These expressions illuminate the physical origin of the particle creation.
©1976 The American Physical Society
URL: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v36/p999
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.999
* Supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant No. GP30799X.
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