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Recently Verlinde has suggested a new approach to gravity which interprets gravitational interaction as a kind of entropic force. The new approach uses the holographic principle by stating that the information is kept on the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-09 R. A. Konoplya

In this work, we explore the effect at cosmological level of the extra contribution arising from the Geodetic Brane Gravity model within a thermodynamical perspective. As already known, the universe seen as an extended object embedded…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-27 Gilberto Aguilar-Pérez , Giovany Cruz , Miguel Cruz , Efraín Rojas

Shape dynamics is classical theory of gravity which agrees with general relativity in many important cases, but possesses different gauge symmetries and constraints. Rather than spacetime diffeomorphism invariance, shape dynamics takes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-23 Gabriel Herczeg , Vasudev Shyam

The comparison of geometrical properties of black holes with classical thermodynamic variables reveals surprising parallels between the laws of black hole mechanics and the laws of thermodynamics. Since Hawking's discovery that black holes…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2019-03-18 Carina E. A. Prunkl , Christopher G. Timpson

Although the fundamental equations of ordinary thermodynamic systems are known to correspond to first-degree homogeneous functions, in the case of non-ordinary systems like black holes the corresponding fundamental equations are not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-27 Hernando Quevedo , Maria N. Quevedo , Alberto Sanchez

We describe the dynamics and thermodynamics of collisionless particle disks orbiting a massive central body, in the case where the disk mass is small compared to the central mass, the self-gravity of the disk dominates the non-Keplerian…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-09-12 Jihad Touma , Scott Tremaine

We investigate the thermodynamics, topology, and geometry of black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity. Modifications in the theory by perturbative parameter lead to coupled changes in horizon structure and thermodynamic behaviour, allowing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-28 Ankit Anand , Aditya Singh , Anshul Mishra , Saeed Noori Gashti , Takol Tangphati , Phongpichit Channuie

The thermodynamical properties of toroidal black holes in the grand canonical ensemble are investigated using York's formalism. The black hole is enclosed in a cavity with finite radius where the temperature and electrostatic potential are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Claudia S. Peça , José P. S. Lemos

In this work we suggest a simplified "quasi-classical" formalism of the Schwarzschild black hole thermodynamics. We define such small quantum system at Schwarzschild black hole horizon surface whose reduced Compton wavelength equals one…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-22 Vladan Pankovic

A recently proposed universal lower-bound to the characteristic relaxation times of perturbed thermodynamic systems, derived from quantum information theory and (classical) thermodynamics and known to be saturated for (certain) black holes,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-22 Alessandro Pesci

In the contact-geometric formulation of classical thermodynamics distinction is made between the energy and entropy representation, which can be resolved by taking homogeneous coordinates for the intensive variables. This results in a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Arjan van der Schaft

I describe an approach which relates classical gravity to the quantum microstructure of spacetime. In this approach, the field equations arise from maximizing the density of states of the matter plus geometry. The former is identified using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-22 Thanu Padmanabhan

The precision of nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems is fundamentally limited, yet how quantum coherence shapes these limits remains largely unexplored. A general theoretical framework is introduced that explicitly links quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Shanhe Su , Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Shihao Xia , Fei Liu , Jincan Chen

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 revisit the classical thermodynamic stability of the standard black hole solutions by implementing the intrinsic necessary and sufficient conditions for stable global and local thermodynamic equilibrium. The criteria for such equilibria…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-30 V. Avramov , H. Dimov , M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , T. Vetsov

The gravity-scalar field system in spherical symmetry provides a natural setting for exploring gravitational collapse and its aftermath in quantum gravity. In a canonical approach, we give constructions of the Hamiltonian operator, and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Viqar Husain , Daniel R. Terno

We review the recent developments in applying holographic methods to understand non-equilibrium physics in strongly coupled field theories. The emphasis will be on elucidating the relation between evolution of quantum field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-05 Veronika E. Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani

When a thermodynamic system is released from any constraint, after some time its evolution will render it into an equilibrium state. Although the description of this relaxation to thermodynamic equilibrium has been attempted through both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Silvina Limandri , Silvina Segui , Bruno Castellano , Ignacio Belitzky , Gustavo Castellano

A version of massive gravity, namely conformal massive gravity, is employed to study the behavior of thermodynamic geometry for both the static and the rotating regular black holes. Whereas in thermodynamic geometry singularity can be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Saheb Soroushfar , Reza Saffari , Amare Abebe , Haidar Sheikhahmadi

We develop the framework of classical Observational entropy, which is a mathematically rigorous and precise framework for non-equilibrium thermodynamics, explicitly defined in terms of a set of observables. Observational entropy can be seen…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-09 Dominik Šafránek , Anthony Aguirre , J. M. Deutsch