scholarly journals State of matter at high density and entropy bounds

2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (12) ◽  
pp. 1544016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali Masoumi

Entropy of all systems that we understand well is proportional to their volumes except for black holes given by their horizon area. This makes the microstates of any quantum theory of gravity drastically different from the ordinary matter. Because of the assumption that black holes are the maximum entropy states, there have been many conjectures that put the area, defined one way or another, as a bound on the entropy in a given region of spacetime. Here, we construct a simple model with entropy proportional to volume which exceeds the entropy of a single black hole. We show that a homogeneous cosmology filled with this gas exceeds one of the tightest entropy bounds, the covariant entropy bound and discuss the implications.

1991 ◽  
Vol 06 (33) ◽  
pp. 3039-3045 ◽  
Author(s):  
JISHNU DEY ◽  
MIRA DEY ◽  
MARCELO SCHIFFER ◽  
LAURO TOMIO

The entropy bound from black hole thermodynamics can be invoked to set limits for temperatures at which hadrons can survive as a confined system. We find that this implies that the pion can be formed in heavy ion collisions, much later than heavier mesons, for example the ρ-meson, when the fireball is cooler. The temperature found in a simple model agree qualitatively with experiment. We also suggest that this may be the reason why in pion interferometry experiments the space-time volume of the pion source seems large.


Universe ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanislav Alexeyev ◽  
Maxim Sendyuk

We discuss black hole type solutions and wormhole type ones in the effective gravity models. Such models appear during the attempts to construct the quantum theory of gravity. The mentioned solutions, being, mostly, the perturbative generalisations of well-known ones in general relativity, carry out additional set of parameters and, therefore could help, for example, in the studying of the last stages of Hawking evaporation, in extracting the possibilities for the experimental or observational search and in helping to constrain by astrophysical data.


1993 ◽  
Vol 08 (20) ◽  
pp. 1925-1941
Author(s):  
ULF H. DANIELSSON

In this work the quantum theory of two-dimensional dilaton black holes is studied using the Wheeler-De Witt equation. The solutions correspond to wave functions of the black hole. It is found that for an observer inside the horizon, there are uncertainty relations for the black hole mass and a parameter in the metric determining the Hawking flux. Only for a particular value of this parameter can both be known with arbitrary accuracy. In the generic case there is instead a relation that is very similar to the so-called string uncertainty relation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (14) ◽  
pp. 2030013
Author(s):  
Samir D. Mathur

Cosmology presents us with several puzzles that are related to the fundamental structure of quantum theory. We discuss three such puzzles, linking them to effects that arise in black hole physics. We speculate that puzzles in cosmology may be resolved by the vecro structure of the vacuum that resolves the information paradox and the “bags of gold” problem for black holes.


1996 ◽  
Vol 05 (06) ◽  
pp. 665-678
Author(s):  
G. KUNSTATTER

We review some recent work concerning the classical thermodynamics and quantum mechanics of charged black holes in generic 2-D dilaton gravity. The main result that has emerged from this work is an intriguing connection between the classical black hole entropy and the imaginary part of the WKB phase of energy and charge eigenstates in the corresponding quantum theory.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aurélien Barrau

The search for a quantum theory of gravitation is considered one of the most important problems in theoretical physics. Might black holes provide a key? Researchers are beginning to think that the emergence of a true black hole astronomy based on the measurement of gravitational waves and radio interferometry could bring quantum gravity into the field of experimental or observational science.


2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (16) ◽  
pp. 2040001
Author(s):  
Asghar Qadir

Hawking radiation caught the imagination of the public and physicists alike, because it seemed so counter-intuitive. By their very definition, black holes were supposed to endlessly absorb, but never emit, matter and energy. Yet, Hawking argued that taking Quantum Theory into account, they would radiate. The further belief was that Bekenstein and Hawking had developed the field of Black Hole Thermodynamics. Here I want to correct this impression and give due credit to Roger Penrose for founding the subject. Further, I discuss the question of whether Hawking radiation should be expected to really exist, arguing that there is reason to doubt it.


2006 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2181-2185 ◽  
Author(s):  
RODOLFO GAMBINI ◽  
RAFAEL A. PORTO ◽  
JORGE PULLIN

Unitarity is a pillar of quantum theory. Nevertheless, it is also a source of several of its conceptual problems. We note that in a world where measurements are relational, as is the case in gravitation, quantum mechanics exhibits a fundamental level of loss of coherence. This can be the key to solving, among others, the puzzles posed by the black hole information paradox, the formation of inhomogeneities in cosmology and the measurement problem in quantum mechanics.


2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (26) ◽  
pp. 2149-2161 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. M. MEDVED

There has been some recent controversy regarding the Ruppeiner metrics that are induced by Reissner–Nordström (and Reissner–Nordström-like) black holes. Most infamously, why does this family of metrics turn out to be flat, how is this outcome to be physically understood, and can/should the formalism be suitably modified to induce curvature? In this paper, we provide a novel interpretation of this debate. For the sake of maximal analytic clarity and tractability, some supporting calculations are carried out for the relatively simple model of a rotating BTZ black hole.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (12) ◽  
pp. 2050180
Author(s):  
C. Avilés-Niebla ◽  
P. A. Nieto-Marín ◽  
J. A. Nieto

We describe a simple approach for a possible connection between the exterior and interior of black-holes. According to our result, the Schwarzschild radius determines a [Formula: see text]-dimensional sphere that separates two worlds: the exterior, where ordinary matter moves with velocities less than the light velocity, and the interior, where tachyons move with velocities greater than the light velocity. Moreover, we find a geometric map in the complex plane that connects ordinary matter with faster than light particles. Motivated by these results, we also find that the exterior and the interior structures of black-holes can be unified in a world of [Formula: see text]-dimensions. Finally, we comment about the possibility that superluminal particles in the interior of a black-hole may provide an alternative solution of the rotation curves of spiral galaxies.


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