Detecting the rotating quantum vacuum

This is the publisher’s final pdf. The published article is copyrighted by the American Physical Society and can be found at: http://prd.aps.org/.We derive conditions for rotating particle detectors to respond in a variety of bounded spacetimes and\ud compare the results with the folklore that particle detectors do not respond in the vacuum state appropriate to\ud their motion. Applications involving possible violations of the second law of thermodynamics are briefly\ud addressed