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We investigate the generalized second law for two-dimensional black holes in equilibrium (Hartle-Hawking) and nonequilibrium (Unruh) with the heat bath surrounding the black holes. We obtain a simple expression for the change of total…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jeongwon Ho

In the previous analyses in the literature about the generalized second law (GSL) in an accelerated expanding universe the usual area relation for the entropy, i.e. $S={A\over 4G}$, was used for the cosmological horizon entropy. But this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-14 H. Mohseni Sadjadi , Mubasher Jamil

We discuss the generalized second law of thermodynamics in three different systems by taking quantum corrections (logarithmic and power law) to cosmological horizon entropy as well as black hole entropy. Firstly, we consider phantom energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Sharif , Abdul Jawad

We evaluate the validity of the generalied second law for Kerr black holes perturbed by fermionic and bosonic fields. We derive that the critical frequency for a test field below which the area of a Kerr black hole would decrease, coincides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Koray Düztaş

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy satisfies the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics for arbitrary thermodynamic evolution within Einstein-Maxwell theory. In contrast, the black hole entropy that satisfies the second law in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-16 Xin-Yang Wang , Jie Jiang

Although the entropy of black holes in any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity can be expressed as the Wald entropy, the issue of whether the entropy always obeys the second law of black hole thermodynamics remains open. Since the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Xin-Yang Wang , Jie Jiang

In a gedanken experiment in which a box initially containing energy $E$ and entropy $S$ is lowered toward a black hole and then dropped in, it was shown by Unruh and Wald that the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics holds,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 M. A. Pelath , Robert M. Wald

In this paper we study the modification of thermodynamic properties of Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black hole in the framework of generalized uncertainty principle with correction terms upto fourth order in momentum…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-11 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Abhijit Dutta

Black hole thermodynamics provides a unique setting in which general relativity, quantum field theory, and statistical mechanics converge. In semiclassical gravity, this interplay culminates in the generalized second law (GSL), whose modern…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-08 Antoine Rignon-Bret , Matthieu Vilatte

We have investigated the accretion of phantom energy onto a 5-dimensional extreme Einstein-Maxwell-Gauss-Bonnet (EMGB) black hole. It is shown that the evolution of the EMGB black hole mass due to phantom energy accretion depends only on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-18 Mubasher Jamil , Ibrar Hussain

In this work, we have considered a non-canonical scalar field dark energy model in the framework of flat FRW background. It has also been assumed that the dark matter sector interacts with the non-canonical dark energy sector through some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-12 Sudipta Das , Ujjal Debnath , Abdulla Al Mamon

In a gedankenexperiment about the generalized second law (GSL) of black hole thermodynamics, the buoyant force by black hole atmosphere (the acceleration radiation) plays an important role, and then it is significant to understand the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Takashi Okamura

It is shown that all generalized two--dimensional dilaton theories with arbitrary matter content (with a curvature independent coupling to gravity) do not only obey a first law of black hole mechanics (which follows from Wald's general…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Norbert Duechting , Thomas Strobl

We reconsider the possibility of violating the generalized second law of thermodynamics in theories with spontaneous Lorentz violation. It has been proposed that this may be accomplished in particular with a black hole immersed in a ghost…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-05 Brian Feldstein

The generalized second law states the total entropy of any closed system as the universe cannot decrease if we include black hole entropy. From the point of view of an asymptotic observer, a black hole can be described at late time as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-24 Antoine Rignon-Bret

By dropping particles into black hole, we have employed the recently new assumption [1] that the change of the black hole mass(enthalpy) should be the same amount as the energy of an infalling particle($\omega = dM$), to carefully test the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-18 Guo-Ping Li , Ke-Jian He , Bing-Bing Chen

In classical general relativity described by Einstein-Hilbert gravity, black holes behave as thermodynamic objects. In particular, the laws of black hole mechanics can be interpreted as laws of thermodynamics. The first law of black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 Sayantani Bhattacharyya , Felix M. Haehl , Nilay Kundu , R. Loganayagam , Mukund Rangamani

The study of black hole thermodynamics becomes a central topic in gravitational physics, where the first law and the Smarr relation establish a deep connection between spacetime geometry and thermodynamic laws. As we know, these relations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-04 Usman Zafar , Krishnakanta Bhattacharya , Kazuharu Bamba

The topological contribution to black hole entropy of a Gauss-Bonnet term in four dimensions opens up the possibility of a violation of the second law of thermodynamics in black hole mergers. We show, however, that the second law is not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-23 Saugata Chatterjee , Maulik Parikh

As early as 1902, Gibbs pointed out that systems whose partition function diverges, e.g. gravitation, lie outside the validity of the Boltzmann-Gibbs (BG) theory. Consistently, since the pioneering Bekenstein-Hawking results, physically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-08 Constantino Tsallis , Leonardo J. L. Cirto