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The BTZ black hole exhibits anti-Hawking phenomena

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2020-09-02 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

The Unruh effect is a surprising prediction of quantum field theory that asserts accelerating observers perceive a thermal spectrum of particles with a temperature proportional to their acceleration. However, it has recently been shown that particle detectors can click less often or even cool down as their acceleration increases, in contrast to the heating one would expect. This leads to the so called anti-Unruh phenomena. Here we consider detectors outside a BTZ black hole and demonstrate the existence of black hole analogues of these effects, which we dub anti-Hawking phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1911.02977,
  title  = {The BTZ black hole exhibits anti-Hawking phenomena},
  author = {Laura J. Henderson and Robie A. Hennigar and Robert B. Mann and Alexander R. H. Smith and Jialin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.02977},
  year   = {2020}
}

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10 pages, 3 figures