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Black-hole formation is expected, via holography, to correspond to thermalization in the boundary theory. For open quantum systems, an initial pure state generically evolves into a mixed state irreversibly, suggesting that horizon formation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-15 Ryo Adachi , Rumi Hasegawa , Takanori Ishii , Daichi Takeda

We discuss how the thermalization of an elementary quantum system is modified when the system is placed in an environment out of thermal equilibrium. To this aim we provide a detailed investigation of the dynamics of an atomic system placed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Didier Felbacq , Mauro Antezza

Why is thermalisation a universal phenomenon? How does a quantum system reach thermodynamical equilibrium? These questions are not new, dating even from the very birth of quantum theory and have been the subject of a renewed interest over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges

It is shown that in the extreme limit with a zero surface gravity but nonzero local temperature the limiting metric of a generic static black hole is determined by a metric induced on a horizon and one function of two coordinates,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 O. B. Zaslavskii

Inspired by the recent conjecture that black holes are condensates of gravitons, we investigate a simple model for the black hole degrees of freedom that is consistent both from the point of view of Quantum mechanics and of General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 R. Casadio , A. Orlandi

We report a phase transition in the projected ensemble - the collection of post-measurement wavefunctions of a local subsystem obtained by measuring its complement. The transition emerges in systems undergoing random permutation dynamics, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Chang Liu , Matteo Ippoliti , Wen Wei Ho

One of the major open problems in theoretical physics is a consistent quantum gravity theory.Recent developments in thermodynamic phase transitions ofblack holes and their van der Waals-like behavior may provide an interesting quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-26 Seyed Hossein Hendi , Shahram Panahiyan , Behzad Eslam Panah , Mubasher Jamil

Near horizons, quantum fields of low spin exhibit densities of states that behave asymptotically like 1+1 dimensional conformal field theories. In effective field theory, imposing some short-distance cutoff, one can compute thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-30 Tom Banks , Patrick Draper

Standard thermodynamic treatments of quantum field theory in the presence of black-hole backgrounds reproduce the black hole entropy by usually specializing to the leading order of the heat-kernel or the high-temperature expansion. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-19 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

The double Hawking temperature $T=2T_H$ appears in some approaches to the Hawking radiation, when the radiation is considered in terms of the quantum tunneling. We consider the origin of such temperature for the black hole horizon and also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 G. E. Volovik

Unconventional nonequilibrium phases with restricted correlation spreading and slow entanglement growth have been proposed to emerge in systems with confined excitations, calling their thermalization dynamics into question. Here, we show…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-25 Stefan Birnkammer , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

Following a recent proposal, we consider the most general structure possible for the Hamiltonian operator associated with the Quantum Isolated Horizon(QIH) with explanations of the underlying physical motivations. An extensive thermodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-18 Abhishek Majhi

In this work we apply the gravity-thermodynamics approach for the case of generalized mass-to-horizon entropy, which is a two-parameter extension of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy that arises from the extended mass-to-horizon relation, that is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Spyros Basilakos , Andreas Lymperis , Maria Petronikolou , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

We describe a quench protocol that allows the rapid preparation of ground states of arbitrary interacting conformal field theories in $1+1$ dimensions. We start from the ground state of a related gapped relativistic quantum field theory and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-03 Prahar Mitra , Matteo Ippoliti , R. N. Bhatt , S. L. Sondhi , Kartiek Agarwal

The unitary time evolution of a critical quantum spin chain with an impurity is calculated, and the entanglement evolution is shown. Moreover, we show that the reduced density matrix of a part of the chain evolves such that the fidelity of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stein Olav Skrøvseth

We consider a boson gas on the stretched horizon of the Schwartzschild and Kerr black holes. It is shown that the gas is in a Bose-Einstein condensed state with the Hawking temperature $T_c=T_H$ if the particle number of the system be equal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Somayeh Zare , Zahra Raissi , Hosein Mohammadzadeh , Behrouz Mirza

Assuming that (1) the universe underwent a post-inflationary accelerated expansion phase driven by a fluid with equation of state $P=w\rho$ and $-1<w<-1/3$, that (2) the cosmic horizon in an accelerating, quasi-de Sitter universe has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 Stefano Profumo

Universal thermodynamics for FRW model of the Universe bounded by apparent/event horizon has been considered for massive gravity theory. Assuming Hawking temperature and using the unified first law of thermodynamics on the horizon, modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-21 Subhajit Saha , Saugata Mitra , Subenoy Chakraborty

We investigate the entanglement properties of thermal states of the harmonic lattice in one, two and three dimensions. We establish the value of the critical temperature for entanglement between neighbouring sites and give physical reasons.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Janet Anders

A semi-classical reasoning leads to the non-commutativity of space and time coordinates near the horizon of static non-extreme black hole, and renders the classical horizon spreading to {\it Quantum Horizon} . In terms of the background…

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