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Microscopic Black Hole Pairs in Highly-Excited States

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We consider the quantum mechanics of a system consisting of two identical, Planck-size Schwarzschild black holes revolving around their common center of mass. We find that even in a very highly-excited state such a system has very sharp, discrete energy eigenstates, and the system performs very rapid transitions from a one stationary state to another. For instance, when the system is in the 100th excited state, the life times of the energy eigenstates are of the order of 103010^{-30} s, and the energies of gravitons released in transitions between nearby states are of the order of 102210^{22} eV.

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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/0006070,
  title  = {Microscopic Black Hole Pairs in Highly-Excited States},
  author = {J. Makela and P. Repo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/0006070},
  year   = {2009}
}

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22 pages, 3 figures, uses RevTex