Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
2019-01-21 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
We analyze the instability of the non-rotating fermion vacuum in Kerr spacetimes. We describe how the co-rotating Fermi sea is formed as a result of a spontaneous vacuum decay. Most significantly, and drawing upon intuition gained from analogous electrodynamic processes in supercritical fields, we show that this decay process is encoded entirely in a subset of quasi-normal fermion modes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1809.03480,
title = {Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole},
author = {Antonin Coutant and Peter Millington},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.03480},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
25 pages, 2 figures. V2: contains additional minor clarifications, along with corrections to Fig. 2, and Eqs. (45), (46) and (53), which were overlooked in the published version. Selected for a CQG+ insight article