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The generalized uncertainty principle, motivated by string theory and non-commutative quantum mechanics, suggests significant modifications to the Hawking temperature and evaporation process of black holes. For extra-dimensional gravity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Cavaglia , Saurya Das , Roy Maartens

The thermal balance between the black hole and surrounding thermal radiation is an interesting topic. The primordial black hole is a type of black hole formed in the early universe, especially during the thermal radiation period of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-02 Ruifeng Zheng

A possible resolution of the incompatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity is that the relativity principle is emergent. I show that the central paradox of black holes also occurs at a liquid-vapor critical surface of a bose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. B. Laughlin

During the past three decades investigators have unveiled a number of deep connections between physical information and black holes whose consequences for ordinary systems go beyond what has been deduced purely from the axioms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Jacob D. Bekenstein

We have shown that changes occur in a (2+1)-dimensional charged black hole by adding a charged probe. The particle increases the entropy of the black hole and guarantees the second law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-01 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee

The generalized second law of thermodynamics states that entropy always increases when all event horizons are attributed with an entropy proportional to their area. We test the generalized second law by investigating the change in entropy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tamara M. Davis , P. C. W. Davies , Charles H. Lineweaver

We present an approach to the four laws of black hole thermodynamics by utilizing the thermodynamics of quantum coherence. Firstly, Hawking effect is attributed to the decoherence of the two-mode squeezed state in a black hole spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Xiao-Kan Guo

In this thesis properties and the origin of black hole entropy are investigated from various points of view. First, laws of black hole thermodynamics are reviewed. In particular, the first and generalized second laws are investigated in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shinji Mukohyama

As is well known, black hole entropy is proportional to the area of the horizon suggesting a holographic principle wherein all degrees of freedom contributing to the entropy reside on the surface. In this note, we point out that large scale…

General Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 C. Sivaram , Kenath Arun

In this paper, we try to construct black hole thermodynamics based on the fact that, the formation and evaporation of a black hole can be described by quantum unitary evolutions. First, we show that the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy $S_{BH}$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen

Black holes are famous for their universal behavior. New thermodynamic relations have been found recently for the product of gravitational entropies over all the horizons of a given stationary black hole. This product has been found to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Alejandra Castro , Nima Dehmami , Gaston Giribet , David Kastor

New and rather controversial observations hint that the fine structure constant \alpha may have been smaller in the early universe, suggesting that some of the fundamental ``constants'' of physics may be dynamical. In a recent paper,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip , S. Vaidya

The presumption that Hawking radiations are thermally distributed can be considered to result from their entanglement with the internal degrees of freedom for a black hole. This leads to the "firewall" paradox if unitary evolution continues…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-25 Baocheng Zhang , Li You

The Black Hole Uncertainty Principle correspondence proposes a connection between the Uncertainty Principle on microscopic scales and black holes on macroscopic scales. This is manifested in a unified expression for the Compton wavelength…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-07 B. J. Carr

By introducing the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on quantum density states, we newly obtain a consistent entropy of a scalar field on the (1+1)-dimensional Maxwell-dilaton background without an artificial cutoff in contrast to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wontae Kim , Yong-Wan Kim , Young-Jai Park

Although we know that black holes are characterized by a temperature and an entropy, we do not yet have a satisfactory microscopic ``statistical mechanical'' explanation for black hole thermodynamics. I describe a new approach that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 S. Carlip

We construct a proof of the second law of thermodynamics in an arbitrary diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity working within the approximation of linearized dynamical fluctuations around stationary black holes. We achieve this by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-05 Sayantani Bhattacharyya , Prateksh Dhivakar , Anirban Dinda , Nilay Kundu , Milan Patra , Shuvayu Roy

A brief overview of the discovery that macroscopic black holes are thermodynamical systems is presented. They satisfy the laws of thermodynamics and are associated with a temperature and an entropy equal to one quarter of their horizon area…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Alejandro Perez

The Bekenstein-Hawking equation states that black holes should have entropy proportional to their areas to make black hole physics compatible with the second law of thermodynamics. However, this equation leads to an inconsistency among the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-04 Koji Azuma , Sathyawageeswar Subramanian , Go Kato

We study thermodynamic quantities and the stability of a black hole in a cavity using the Euclidean action formalism by Gibbons and Hawking based on the generalized uncertainty relation which is extended in a symmetric way with respect to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Wontae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myungseok Yoon