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Black Holes with Flavors of Quantum Hair?

High Energy Physics - Theory 2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We show that black holes can posses a long-range quantum hair of super-massive tensor fields, which can be detected by Aharonov-Bohm tabletop interference experiments, in which a quantum-hairy black hole, or a remnant particle, passes through the loop of a magnetic solenoid. The long distance effect does not decouple for an arbitrarily high mass of the hair-providing field. Because Kaluza-Klein and String theories contain infinite number of massive tensor fields, we study black holes with quantum Kaluza-Klein hair. We show that in five dimensions such a black hole can be interpreted as a string of `combed' generalized magnetic monopoles, with their fluxes confined along it. For the compactification on a translation-invariant circle, this substructure uncovers hidden flux conservation and quantization of the monopole charges, which constrain the quantum hair of the resulting four-dimensional black hole. For the spin-2 quantum hair this result is somewhat unexpected, since the constituent `magnetic' charges have no `electric' counterparts. Nevertheless, the information about their quantization is encoded in singularity.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0607144,
  title  = {Black Holes with Flavors of Quantum Hair?},
  author = {Gia Dvali},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0607144},
  year   = {2007}
}

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22 pages, Latex