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We compute the mutual information of two Hawking particles emitted consecutively by an evaporating black hole. Following Page, we find that the mutual information is of order exp(-S) where S is the entropy of the black hole. We speculate on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-30 Norihiro Iizuka , Daniel Kabat

When discussing the black hole information problem the term ``information flow'' is frequently used in a rather loose fashion. In this article I attempt to make this notion more concrete. I consider a Hilbert space which is constructed as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-08 Andreas Albrecht

An effective field theory for infalling observers in the vicinity of a quasi-static black hole is given in terms of a freely falling lattice discretization. The lattice model successfully reproduces the thermal spectrum of outgoing Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-08 David A. Lowe , Larus Thorlacius

We examine a possibility that, when a black hole is formed, the information on the collapsed star is stored as the entanglement entropy between the outside and the thin region (of the order of the Planck length) of the inside the horizon.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Hiroaki Terashima

We investigate a recent development of the black hole information problem, in which a practical paradox has been formulated to show that complementarity is insufficient. A crucial ingredient in this practical paradox is to distill…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-23 Lam Hui , I-Sheng Yang

For more than 30 years the discovery that black holes radiate like black bodies of specific temperature has triggered a multitude of puzzling questions concerning their nature and the fate of information that goes down the black hole during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-28 Nikolaos D. Pappas

We explore the entropic uncertainty relation in the curved background outside a Schwarzschild black hole, and find that Hawking radiation introduces a nontrivial modification on the uncertainty bound for particular observer, therefore it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-10 Jun Feng , Yao-Zhong Zhang , Mark D. Gould , Heng Fan

The information conservation principle is probed for classically isolated systems, like the Hubble sphere and black holes, for which the rise of entanglement entropy across their horizons is expected. We accept the analogy of Landauer's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-27 Merab Gogberashvili , Beka Modrekiladze

In approaches to quantum gravity, where smooth spacetime is an emergent approximation of a discrete Planckian fundamental structure, any standard effective field theoretical description will miss part of the degrees of freedom and thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-04 Lautaro Amadei , Alejandro Perez

Many discussion about the black hole conundrums, such as singularity and information loss, suggested that there must be some essential irreconcilable conflict between quantum theory and classical gravity theory, which cannot be solved with…

General Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Sun Yi

This contribution overviews the information paradox, or perhaps more aptly "unitarity crisis," and a proposed resolution called nonviolent unitarization. It begins by examining the conflict of principles that yields the crisis, which can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-26 Steven B. Giddings

We investigate the information paradox in the four-dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole by employing the recently proposed island paradigm. We first consider the quantum field in the four-dimensional Kerr-Newman spacetime. By employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge

The question of whether information is lost in black holes is investigated using Euclidean path integrals. The formation and evaporation of black holes is regarded as a scattering problem with all measurements being made at infinity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. W. Hawking

Black holes emit thermal radiation (Hawking effect). If after black-hole evaporation nothing else were left, an arbitrary initial state would evolve into a thermal state (`information-loss problem'). Here it is argued that the whole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Claus Kiefer

The crux of the black hole information paradox is related to the fact that the complete information about the initial state of a quantum field in a collapsing spacetime is not available to future asymptotic observers, belying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-05 Kinjalk Lochan , T. Padmanabhan

A first-principles approach to the unitarity problem for black holes is systematically explored, based on the postulates of 1) quantum mechanics 2) the ability to approximately locally divide quantum gravitational systems into subsystems 3)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-26 Steven B. Giddings

The question of whether Hawking evaporation violates unitarity, and therefore results in the loss of information, remains unresolved since Hawking's seminal discovery. So far the investigations remain mostly theoretical since it is almost…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Pisin Chen , Gerard Mourou

The purely thermal nature of Hawking radiation from evaporating black holes leads to the information loss paradox. A possible route to its resolution could be if (enough) correlations are shown to be present in the radiation emitted from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-25 C. Fairoos , Sudipta Sarkar , K. P. Yogendran

The back reactions of Hawking radiation allow nontrivial correlations between consecutive Hawking quanta, which gives a possible way of resolving the paradox of black hole information loss known as the hidden messenger method. In a recent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-11 Xiao-Kan Guo , Qing-yu Cai

We argue that the entropy of a black hole is due to the entanglement of matter fields and gravitons across the horizon. While the entanglement entropy of the vacuum is divergent because of UV correlations, we show that low-energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-08 Eugenio Bianchi