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In 1976 S. Hawking claimed that "Because part of the information about the state of the system is lost down the hole, the final situation is represented by a density matrix rather than a pure quantum state" (Verbatim from ref. 2). This was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-04 Christian Corda

Inspired by the recent proposal of soft hair on black holes in Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 231301 (2016), we have shown that an isolated horizon carries soft hairs implanted by electromagnetic fields. The solution space and the asymptotic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-08 Pujian Mao , Xiaoning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

The black hole information paradox has caused enormous confusion over four decades. But in recent years, the theorem of quantum strong-subaddditivity has sorted out the possible resolutions into three sharp categories: (A) No new physics at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Samir D. Mathur

We propose a model with multiple qubits that reproduces the thermal properties of 4-dimensional (4-dim) Schwarzschild black holes (BHs) by simultaneously taking account of the emission of Hawking particles and the zero-energy soft hair…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-08 Masahiro Hotta , Yasusada Nambu , Koji Yamaguchi

It was recently shown that black holes decohere any quantum superpositions in their vicinity. This decoherence is mediated by soft radiation through the horizon, and can be understood as the result of the fact that quantum states in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 Daine L. Danielson , Gautam Satishchandran

We analyze the physical consequences of scattering Hawking radiation emitted in the vicinity of the horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole. The Hawking radiation from the horizon becomes soft at a large distance away from the horizon due to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-24 Peng Cheng

The membrane paradigm posits that black hole microstates are dynamical degrees of freedom associated with a physical membrane vanishingly close to the black hole's event horizon. The soft hair paradigm postulates that black holes can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 D. Grumiller , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari

In this thesis, we have studied the information loss paradox in detail. As a first step, we have derived the main results of quantum field theory in a curved background. We have discussed the case of the free scalar Klein-Gordon field and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-02 Francisco Martínez López

Thirty years ago, John Preskill concluded "that the information loss paradox may well presage a revolution in fundamental physics" and mused that "Conceivably, the puzzle of black hole evaporation portends a scientific revolution as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-20 Stephen Boughn

Given the insight steming from string theory, the origin of the black-hole (BH) information puzzle is traced back to the assumption that it is physically meaningful to trace out the density matrix over negative-frequency Hawking particles.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Nikolic

In this paper, we derive a soft photon theorem in the near horizon region of the Schwarzschild black hole from the Ward identity of the near horizon large gauge transformation. The flat spacetime soft photon theorem can be recovered as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-15 Peng Cheng , Pujian Mao

An approach to black hole quantization is proposed wherein it is assumed that quantum coherence is preserved. A consequence of this is that the Penrose diagram describing gravitational collapse will show the same topological structure as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 C. R. Stephens , G. 't Hooft , B. F. Whiting

In the present work, quasilocal Brown-York charges are derived that coincide in the large sphere limit with the conserved supertranslation hair and superrotation charges introduced by Hawking, Perry and Strominger in [45, 46]. Given these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Albert Huber

The black hole information paradox arises from an apparent conflict between the Hawking black hole radiation and the fact that time evolution in quantum mechanics is unitary. The trouble is that while the former suggests that information of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-07 E. Okon , D. Sudarsky

It is argued that the blackhole information paradox originates from treating the blackhole geometry as strictly classical. It is further argued that the theory of quantum fields in a classical curved space with a horizon is an ill posed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-09-13 Ram Brustein

The memory burden effect is an explicit resolution to the information paradox by which an evaporating black hole acquires quantum hair, which then suppresses its rate of mass loss with respect to the semi-classical Hawking rate. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-24 Ujjwal Basumatary , Nirmal Raj , Anupam Ray

After a brief reminscence about work with K. Sato 25 years ago on the monopole problem and inflation, a discussion is given of the black hole information paradox. It is argued that, quite generally, it should be anticipated that the states…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin B Einhorn

The "no hair" theorem, a key result in General Relativity, states that an isolated black hole is defined by only three parameters: mass, angular momentum, and electric charge; this asymptotic state is reached on a light-crossing time scale.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Maxim Lyutikov , Jonathan C. McKinney

We demonstrate within the quantum field theoretical framework that an asymptotic particle falling into the black hole implants soft graviton hair on the horizon, conforming with the classical proposal of Hawking, Perry and Strominger. A key…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-29 Sangmin Choi , S. Sandeep Pradhan , Ratindranath Akhoury

Properties of the horizon mass of hairy black holes are discussed with emphasis on certain subtle and initially unexpected features. A key property suggests that hairy black holes may be regarded as `bound states' of ordinary black holes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Abhay Ashtekar , Alejandro Corichi , Daniel Sudarsky