scholarly journals On the assumptions leading to the information loss paradox

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Buoninfante ◽  
Francesco Di Filippo ◽  
Shinji Mukohyama
Keyword(s):  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Central Dogma ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Current Formulation

Abstract The information loss paradox is usually stated as an incompatibility between general relativity and quantum mechanics. However, the assumptions leading to the problem are often overlooked and, in fact, a careful inspection of the main hypothesises suggests a radical reformulation of the problem. Indeed, we present a thought experiment involving a black hole that emits radiation and, independently of the nature of the radiation, we show the existence of an incompatibility between (i) the validity of the laws of general relativity to describe infalling matter far from the Planckian regime, and (ii) the so-called central dogma which states that as seen from an outside observer a black hole behaves like a quantum system whose number of degrees of freedom is proportional to the horizon area. We critically revise the standard arguments in support of the central dogma, and argue that they cannot hold true unless some new physics is invoked even before reaching Planck scales. This suggests that the information loss problem, in its current formulation, is not necessarily related to any loss of information or lack of unitarity. Therefore, in principle, semiclassical general relativity and quantum mechanics can be perfectly compatible before reaching the final stage of the black hole evaporation where, instead, a consistent theory of quantum gravity is needed to make any prediction.

scholarly journals Remnants, fuzzballs or wormholes?

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1442024 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir D. Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
String Theory ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
New Physics ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Information Paradox ◽  
Strong Subadditivity ◽  
Black Hole Information ◽  
Baby Universe

The black hole information paradox has caused enormous confusion over four decades. But in recent years, the theorem of quantum strong-subadditivity has sorted out the possible resolutions into three sharp categories: (i) No new physics at r ≫ lp; this necessarily implies remnants/information loss. A realization of remnants is given by a baby universe attached near r ~ 0. (ii) Violation of the "no-hair" theorem by nontrivial effects at the horizon r ~ M. This possibility is realized by fuzzballs in string theory, and gives unitary evaporation. (iii) Having the vacuum at the horizon, but requiring that Hawking quanta at r ~ M3 be somehow identified with degrees of freedom inside the black hole. A model for this "extreme nonlocality" is realized by conjecturing that wormholes connect the radiation quanta to the hole.

scholarly journals Black hole thermodynamics

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (11) ◽  
pp. 1430023 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Carlip
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Black Hole Thermodynamics ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
Statistical Mechanical ◽  
The Many

The discovery in the early 1970s that black holes radiate as black bodies has radically affected our understanding of general relativity, and offered us some early hints about the nature of quantum gravity. In this paper, will review the discovery of black hole thermodynamics and summarize the many independent ways of obtaining the thermodynamic and (perhaps) statistical mechanical properties of black holes. I will then describe some of the remaining puzzles, including the nature of the quantum microstates, the problem of universality, and the information loss paradox.

scholarly journals DOES BLACK HOLE EVAPORATION IMPLY THAT PHYSICS IS NONUNITARY, AND IF SO, WHAT MUST THE LAWS OF PHYSICS LOOK LIKE?

2009 ◽  
Vol 07 (05) ◽  
pp. 847-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEFFEN GIELEN
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Semiclassical Approximation ◽  
Momentum Conservation ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Unitary Evolution ◽  
Black Hole Evaporation ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Energy Momentum Conservation

Stephen Hawking's discovery of black hole evaporation has the remarkable consequence that information is destroyed by a black hole, which can only be accommodated by modifying the laws of quantum mechanics. Different attempts to evade the information loss paradox were subsequently suggested, apparently without a satisfactory resolution of the paradox. On the other hand, attempting to include nonunitarity in quantum mechanics might lead to laws predicting observable consequences such as nonlocality or violation of energy–momentum conservation; but it may be possible to circumvent these obstacles. Recent developments seem to require a different view on quantum gravity and suggest that ideas about locality in physics and Hawking's semiclassical approximation are misleading. An accurate description may show unitary evolution and no information loss after all.

scholarly journals Gravitational Waves Carry Information about the Infalling Matter out of Black Holes: a Resolution of the Black Hole Information Paradox

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xueyi Tian
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Gravitational Waves ◽  
Hawking Radiation ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Information Paradox ◽  
Black Hole Information ◽  
The Universe

The black hole information paradox is one of the most puzzling paradoxes in physics. Black holes trap everything that falls into them, while their mass may leak away through purely thermal Hawking radiation. When a black hole vanishes, all the information locked inside, if any, is just lost, thus challenging the principles of quantum mechanics. However, some information does have a way to escape from inside the black hole, that is, through gravitational waves. Here, a concise extension of this notion is introduced. When a black hole swallows something, whether it is a smaller black hole or an atom, the system emits gravitational waves carrying the information about the “food”. Although most of the signals are too weak to be detected, the information encoded within them will persist in the universe. This speculation provides an explanation for a large part, if not all, of the supposed “information loss” in black holes, and thus reconciles the predictions of general relativity and quantum mechanics.

scholarly journals Modification to the Hawking temperature of a dynamical black hole by a flow-induced supertranslation

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hsu-Wen Chiang ◽  
Yu-Hsien Kung ◽  
Pisin Chen
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Coordinate Transformation ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Hawking Temperature ◽  
Asymptotic Region ◽  
Unruh Effect ◽  
Anisotropic Flow ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
History Of ◽  
Entire History

Abstract One interesting proposal to solve the black hole information loss paradox without modifying either general relativity or quantum field theory, is the soft hair, a diffeomorphism charge that records the anisotropic radiation in the asymptotic region. This proposal, however, has been challenged, given that away from the source the soft hair behaves as a coordinate transformation that forms an Abelian group, thus unable to store any information. To maintain the spirit of the soft hair but circumvent these obstacles, we consider Hawking radiation as a probe sensitive to the entire history of the black hole evaporation, where the soft hairs on the horizon are induced by the absorption of a null anisotropic flow, generalizing the shock wave considered in [1, 2]. To do so we introduce two different time-dependent extensions of the diffeomorphism associated with the soft hair, where one is the backreaction of the anisotropic null flow, and the other is a coordinate transformation that produces the Unruh effect and a Doppler shift to the Hawking spectrum. Together, they form an exact BMS charge generator on the entire manifold that allows the nonperturbative analysis of the black hole horizon, whose surface gravity, i.e. the Hawking temperature, is found to be modified. The modification depends on an exponential average of the anisotropy of the null flow with a decay rate of 4M, suggesting the emergence of a new 2-D degree of freedom on the horizon, which could be a way out of the information loss paradox.

scholarly journals Ontology in Quantum Mechanics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerard ’t Hooft
Keyword(s):  
Hilbert Space ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Evolution Equations ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Quantum Evolution ◽  
The Standard Model ◽  
Low Energies

It is suspected that the quantum evolution equations describing the micro-world as we know it are of a special kind that allows transformations to a special set of basis states in Hilbert space, such that, in this basis, the evolution is given by elements of the permutation group. This would restore an ontological interpretation. It is shown how, at low energies per particle degree of freedom, almost any quantum system allows for such a transformation. This contradicts Bell’s theorem, and we emphasise why some of the assumptions made by Bell to prove his theorem cannot hold for the models studied here. We speculate how an approach of this kind may become helpful in isolating the most likely version of the Standard Model, combined with General Relativity. A link is suggested with black hole physics.

scholarly journals A quantum Rosetta Stone for the information paradox

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (12) ◽  
pp. 1442013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Chaos ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Information Paradox ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Classical Chaos ◽  
Rosetta Stone

The black hole information loss paradox epitomizes the contradictions between general relativity and quantum field theory. The AdS/conformal field theory (CFT) correspondence provides an implicit answer for the information loss paradox in black hole physics by equating a gravity theory with an explicitly unitary field theory. Gravitational collapse in asymptotically AdS spacetimes is generically turbulent. Given that the mechanism to read out the information about correlations functions in the field theory side is plagued by deterministic classical chaos, we argue that quantum chaos might provide the true Rosetta Stone for answering the information paradox in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence.

scholarly journals HOLLOWGRAPHY DRIVEN HOLOGRAPHY: BLACK HOLE WITH VANISHING VOLUME INTERIOR

2010 ◽  
Vol 19 (14) ◽  
pp. 2345-2351 ◽  
Author(s):  
AHARON DAVIDSON ◽  
ILYA GURWICH
Keyword(s):  
Phase Transition ◽  
General Relativity ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Schwarzschild Solution ◽  
Entropy Formula ◽  
Gravitational Theories ◽  
Hollow Interior ◽  
Spatial Volume ◽  
Self Similar

Hawking–Bekenstein entropy formula seems to tell us that no quantum degrees of freedom can reside in the interior of a black hole. We suggest that this is a consequence of the fact that the volume of any interior sphere of finite surface area simply vanishes. Obviously, this is not the case in general relativity. However, we show that such a phenomenon does occur in various gravitational theories which admit a spontaneously induced general relativity. In such theories, due to a phase transition (one-parameter family degenerates) which takes place precisely at the would-have-been horizon, the recovered exterior Schwarzschild solution connects, by means of a self-similar transition profile, with a novel "hollow" interior exhibiting a vanishing spatial volume and a locally varying Newton constant. This constitutes the so-called "hollowgraphy" driven holography.

scholarly journals Binary Black Hole Information Loss Paradox and Future Prospects

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (12) ◽  
pp. 1387
Author(s):  
Ayan Mitra ◽  
Pritam Chattopadhyay ◽  
Goutam Paul ◽  
Vasilios Zarikas
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Complete Agreement ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Information Loss Paradox ◽  
Binary Black Hole ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
Qubit System ◽  
Input Source ◽  
Black Hole Information

Various techniques to tackle the black hole information paradox have been proposed. A new way out to tackle the paradox is via the use of a pseudo-density operator. This approach has successfully dealt with the problem with a two-qubit entangle system for a single black hole. In this paper, we present the interaction with a binary black hole system by using an arrangement of the three-qubit system of Greenberger–Horne–Zeilinger (GHZ) state. We show that our results are in excellent agreement with the theoretical value. We have also studied the interaction between the two black holes by considering the correlation between the qubits in the binary black hole system. The results depict a complete agreement with the proposed model. In addition to the verification, we also propose how modern detection of gravitational waves can be used on our optical setup as an input source, thus bridging the gap with the gravitational wave’s observational resources in terms of studying black hole properties with respect to quantum information and entanglement.

scholarly journals INFORMATION STORAGE IN BLACK HOLES

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 2251-2255 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. MAIA
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Evaporation Process ◽  
Black Hole Evaporation ◽  
Information Loss Paradox

The information loss paradox for Schwarzschild black holes is examined, using the ADS/CFT correspondence extended to the M6(4, 2) bulk. It is found that the only option compatible with the preservation of the quantum unitarity is when a regular remnant region of the black hole survives to the black hole evaporation process, where information can be stored and eventually retrieved.

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