Thermodynamics, Quantum Physics, and Black Holes

2020 ◽  
pp. 24-39
Author(s):  
John W. Moffat
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Major Question ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Information Loss Problem

A major question confronting physicists studying black holes was whether thermodynamics applied to them—that is, whether the black holes radiated heat and lost energy. Bekenstein considered heat and thermodynamics important for the interior of black holes. Based on the second law of thermodynamics, Hawking proposed that black holes evaporate over a very long time through what we now call Hawking radiation. This concept contradicts the notion that nothing can escape a black hole event horizon. Quantum physics enters into Hawking’s calculations, and he discovered the conundrum that the radiation would violate quantum mechanics, leading to what is called the information loss problem. These ideas are still controversial, and many physicists have attempted to resolve them, including Russian theorists Zel’dovich and Starobinsky. Alternative quantum physics interpretations of black holes have been proposed that address the thermodynamics problems, including so-called gravastars.

Black-hole Information Loss Problem: Past, Present, and Future

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (11) ◽  
pp. 17-25
Author(s):  
Sang-Heon YI ◽  
Dong-han YEOM
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Hawking Radiation ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Black Hole Information ◽  
Information Loss Problem

In this article, we discuss the information loss problem of black holes and critically review candidate resolutions of the problem. As a black hole evaporates via Hawking radiation, it seems to lose original quantum information; this indicates that the unitarity of time evolution in quantum mechanics and the fundamental predictability of physics are lost. We categorized candidate resolutions by asking (1) where information is and (2) which principle of physics is changed. We also briefly comment on the recent progress in the string theory community. Finally, we present several remarks for future perspectives.

scholarly journals Quantum Hair on Colliding Black Holes

Entropy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Lawrence Crowell ◽  
Christian Corda
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Excited States ◽  
Gravitational Radiation ◽  
Quantum Physics ◽  
Quantum Limit ◽  
Event Horizons ◽  
Quasi Normal Mode

Black hole (BH) collisions produce gravitational radiation which is generally thought, in a quantum limit, to be gravitons. The stretched horizon of a black hole contains quantum information, or a form of quantum hair, which is a coalescence of black holes participating in the generation of gravitons. This may be facilitated with a Bohr-like approach to black hole (BH) quantum physics with quasi-normal mode (QNM) approach to BH quantum mechanics. Quantum gravity and quantum hair on event horizons is excited to higher energy in BH coalescence. The near horizon condition for two BHs right before collision is a deformed A d S spacetime. These excited states of BH quantum hair then relax with the production of gravitons. This is then argued to define RT entropy given by quantum hair on the horizons. These qubits of information from a BH coalescence should then appear in gravitational wave (GW) data.

scholarly journals SEMICLASSICAL BLACK HOLES WITH LARGE N RESCALING AND INFORMATION LOSS PROBLEM

2011 ◽  
Vol 26 (19) ◽  
pp. 3287-3314 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONG-HAN YEOM ◽  
HEESEUNG ZOE
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Causal Structure ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Large N ◽  
Semiclassical Solution ◽  
Information Loss Problem ◽  
Massless Fields

We consider semiclassical black holes and related rescalings with N massless fields. For a given semiclassical solution of an N = 1 universe, we can find other solution of a large N universe by the rescaling. After the rescaling, any curvature quantity takes a sufficiently small value without changing its causal structure. Via the rescaling, we argue that black hole complementarity for semiclassical black holes cannot provide a fundamental resolution of the information loss problem, and the violation of black hole complementarity requires sufficiently reasonable amounts of N. Such N might be realized from some string inspired models. Finally, we claim that any fundamental resolution of the information loss problem should resolve the problem of the singularity.

scholarly journals Information recovery from evaporating black holes

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150069
Author(s):  
Samuel L. Braunstein ◽  
Saurya Das ◽  
Zhi-Wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Quantum Information ◽  
Apparent Horizon ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Information Recovery ◽  
Rotating Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss Problem

We show that the apparent horizon and the region near [Formula: see text] of an evaporating charged, rotating black hole are timelike. It then follows that black holes in nature, which invariably have some rotation, have a channel, via which classical or quantum information can escape to the outside, while the black hole shrinks in size. We discuss implications for the information loss problem.

scholarly journals REVIEWS AND PERSPECTIVES ON BLACK HOLE COMPLEMENTARITY

2011 ◽  
Vol 01 ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
DONG-HAN YEOM
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Holographic Principle ◽  
Charged Black Hole ◽  
Important Condition ◽  
Regular Black Hole ◽  
Information Loss Problem ◽  
Massless Fields

If black hole complementarity is the correct idea to resolve the information loss problem, it should apply to general black holes. We suggest two models: Frolov, Markov, and Mukhanov's regular black hole and a charged black hole. These models can work as counterexamples to black hole complementarity. It has been mentioned that a large number of massless fields is an important condition to justify these models. The invalidity of this principle may imply that the holographic principle must be re-interpreted; the information loss problem, as well, should be re-considered.

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.

The effect of dark matter on the weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the extended space

2021 ◽  
pp. 2150207
Author(s):  
Zi-Yu Fu ◽  
Bao-Qi Zhang ◽  
Chuan-Yin Wang ◽  
Hui-Ling Li
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Dark Matter ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Extended Phase ◽  
Extended Space ◽  
Extreme Black Holes ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Conjecture

By analyzing the energy–momentum relationship of the absorbed fermions dropping into a Reissner–Nordstöm–anti-de Sitter black hole surrounded by dark matter, the laws of thermodynamic and weak cosmic censorship conjecture in the extended phase space are investigated. We find that the first law of thermodynamics is valid. However, the validity of the second law of thermodynamics depends on the density [Formula: see text] of the perfect fluid dark matter. In addition, we also find that when the fermions are absorbed, the structures of black hole surrounded by dark matter would not change. Therefore, weak cosmic censorship conjecture holds for the extreme black holes and the non-extreme black holes.

scholarly journals A proof of the strong cosmic censorship conjecture

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 2042003
Author(s):  
Shahar Hod
Keyword(s):  
Black Holes ◽  
Black Hole ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Deterministic Theory ◽  
Black Hole Spacetimes ◽  
Generalized Second Law ◽  
Strong Cosmic Censorship ◽  
Cosmic Censorship Conjecture

The Penrose strong cosmic censorship conjecture asserts that Cauchy horizons inside dynamically formed black holes are unstable to remnant matter fields that fall into the black holes. The physical importance of this conjecture stems from the fact that it provides a necessary condition for general relativity to be a truly deterministic theory of gravity. Determining the fate of the Penrose conjecture in nonasymptotically flat black hole spacetimes has been the focus of intense research efforts in recent years. In this paper, we provide a remarkably compact proof, which is based on Bekenstein’s generalized second law of thermodynamics, for the validity of the intriguing Penrose conjecture in physically realistic (dynamically formed) curved black hole spacetimes.

scholarly journals Entropy Balance in the Expanding Universe: A Novel Perspective

Entropy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 406
Author(s):  
Arturo Tozzi ◽  
James F. Peters
Keyword(s):  
Quantum Mechanics ◽  
Second Law Of Thermodynamics ◽  
Quantum Systems ◽  
Second Law ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Expanding Universe ◽  
Cosmic Expansion ◽  
Thermodynamic Entropy ◽  
Local Observer ◽  
Relational Mechanism

We describe cosmic expansion as correlated with the standpoints of local observers’ co-moving horizons. In keeping with relational quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum systems are only meaningful in the context of measurements, we suggest that information gets ergodically “diluted” in our isotropic and homogeneous expanding Universe, so that an observer detects just a limited amount of the total cosmic bits. The reduced bit perception is due the decreased density of information inside the expanding cosmic volume in which the observer resides. Further, we show that the second law of thermodynamics can be correlated with cosmic expansion through a relational mechanism, because the decrease in information detected by a local observer in an expanding Universe is concomitant with an increase in perceived cosmic thermodynamic entropy, via the Bekenstein bound and the Laudauer principle. Reversing the classical scheme from thermodynamic entropy to information, we suggest that the cosmological constant of the quantum vacuum, which is believed to provoke the current cosmic expansion, could be one of the sources of the perceived increases in thermodynamic entropy. We conclude that entropies, including the entangled entropy of the recently developed framework of quantum computational spacetime, might not describe independent properties, but rather relations among systems and observers.

scholarly journals A quantum-corrected approach to black hole radiation via a tunneling process

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milad Hajebrahimi ◽  
Kourosh Nozari
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Electric Charge ◽  
Hawking Radiation ◽  
Quantum Correction ◽  
Black Hole Physics ◽  
Information Loss ◽  
Schwarzschild Black Hole ◽  
Tunneling Process ◽  
Black Hole Radiation ◽  
Information Loss Problem

Abstract In the language of black hole physics, Hawking radiation is one of the most controversial subjects about which there exist lots of puzzles, including the information loss problem and the question of whether this radiation is thermal or not. In this situation, a possible way to face these problems is to bring quantum effects into play, also taking into account self-gravitational effects in the scenario. We consider a quantum-corrected form of the Schwarzschild black hole inspired by the pioneering work of Kazakov and Solodukhin to modify the famous Parikh–Wilczek tunneling process for Hawking radiation. We prove that in this framework the radiation is not thermal, with a correlation function more effective than the Parikh–Wilczek result, and the information loss problem can be addressed more successfully. Also, we realize that quantum correction affects things in the same way as an electric charge. So, it seems that quantum correction in this framework has something to do with the electric charge.

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