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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

We estimate the canonical entropy of a quantum black hole by counting its quasi-normal modes. We first show that the partition function of a classical black hole, evaluated by counting the quasi-normal modes with a thermodyanmic Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-03 Naritaka Oshita , Niayesh Afshordi

In this paper we will study the geodesic motion of massive particles, in a Schwarzschild background, with a semi-classical quantum framework called "Polymer Quantum Mechanics" (PQM) in order to investigate the black hole phenomenology…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-10 Lorenzo Boldorini , Corrado Marzano , Giovanni Montani

A black hole, surrounded by a reflecting shell, acts as an effective star-like object with respect to the outer region that leads to vacuum polarization outside, where the quantum fields are in the Boulware state. We find the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 O. B. Zaslavskii

I present in detail the case for regarding black hole thermodynamics as having a statistical-mechanical explanation in exact parallel with the statistical-mechanical explanation believed to underly the thermodynamics of other systems. (Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-18 David Wallace

The quantization of a single particle without spin in an appropriate curved space-time is considered. The Hamilton formalism on reduced space for a particle in a curved space-time is constructed and the main aspects of quantization scheme…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. A. Kalinin

Hawking radiation and black hole thermodynamics are well understood in the frameworks of quantum field theory and general relativity, with contemporary extensions in string theory, AdS/CFT, and loop quantum gravity. However, an open…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-22 Noah M. MacKay

The action for a class of three-dimensional dilaton-gravity theories with a cosmological constant can be recast in a Brans-Dicke type action, with its free $\omega$ parameter. These theories have static spherically symmetric black holes.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gonçalo A. S. Dias , José P. S. Lemos

This paper investigates whether the framework of fractional quantum mechanics can broaden our perspective of black hole thermodynamics. Concretely, we employ a {\it space-fractional} derivative \cite{Rie} as our main tool. Moreover, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-27 S. Jalalzadeh , F. Rodrigues da Silva , P. V. Moniz

Treating macro-black hole as quantum states, and using Brown-York quaselocal gravitational energy definition and Heisenberg uncertainty principle, we find out the classical horizon with singularity spreads into a quantum horizon in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Hua Bai , Mu-Lin Yan

In Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 104018 [arXiv:0807.1481], the conclusion that "entropy eigenvalues of GB black hole are discrete and equally spaced, but the area spacing is not equidistant" was firstly presented by Kothawala, Padmanabhan and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-17 Shao-Wen Wei , Ran Li , Yu-Xiao Liu , Ji-Rong Ren

It was proposed in \cite{Chu:2024qil} that a quantum black hole can be described by a quantum space configuration of a fuzzy sphere together with a half-filled Fermi sea. In this paper we propose that the tunneling of the fuzzy sphere…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-31 Chong-Sun Chu

In this thesis, we examine in detail the notion of black hole entropy in Quantum Field Theories, with a specific focus on supersymmetric black holes and the perturbative and non-perturbative quantum corrections to the classical area-law of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-04 Valentin Reys

The functional Schrodinger equation is used to study the quantum collapse of a gravitating, spherical domain wall and a massless scalar field coupled to the metric. The approach includes backreaction of pre-Hawking radiation on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Tanmay Vachaspati

Two types of semiclassical calculations have been used to study quantum effects in black hole backgrounds, the WKB and the mean field approaches. In this work we systematically reconstruct the logical implications of both methods on quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 B. Harms , Y. Leblanc

The partition function of a relativistic invariant quantum field theory is expressed by its vacuum energy calculated on a spatial manifold with one dimension compactified to a 1-sphere $S^1 (\beta)$, whose circumference $\beta$ represents…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-31 Hugo Reinhardt

We propose a generalized thermodynamics in which quasi-homogeneity of the thermodynamic potentials plays a fundamental role. This thermodynamic formalism arises from a generalization of the approach presented in paper [1], and it is based…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 F. Belgiorno

Getting the mathematical rules for quantised black holes correctly is far from straightforward. Many earlier treatises got it not quite correctly. The general relativistic transformation linking the distant observer (who only detects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-28 Gerard t Hooft

We report on some properties of a quantum black hole obtained recently. The correction to the Newtonian gravitational potential is proportional to a coupling $\alpha$, which is the only free parameter of the theory. We constrain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-01 Grigoris Panotopoulos , Francisco Tello-Ortiz

If a black hole (BH) is initially in an approximately pure state and it evaporates by a unitary process, then the emitted radiation will be in a highly quantum state. As the purifier of this radiation, the state of the BH interior must also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-30 Ram Brustein , A. J. M. Medved