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Asymptotic symmetries are known to constrain the infrared behaviour of scattering processes in asymptotically flat spacetimes. By the same token, one expects symmetries of the black hole horizon to constrain near-horizon gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-06 Ankit Aggarwal , Nava Gaddam

In this paper, we investigate the optical behaviors of a quantum Schwarzschild black hole with a spacetime solution including a parameter $\lambda$ that encodes its discretization. Concretly, we derive the effective potential of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-17 Anas El Balali

In this work we analyze the sound perturbation of Unruh's acoustic effective geometry in both (2+1) and (3+1) spacetime dimensions and present an exact analytical expression for the quasibound states of these idealized black-hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-23 H. S. Vieira

We analyse a quantum observer who falls geodesically towards the Cauchy horizon of a $(1+1)$-dimensional eternal black hole spacetime with the global structure of the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om solution. The observer interacts with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

We consider an evaporating Schwarzschild black hole in a framework in which the spectral dimension of spacetime varies continuously from four at large distances to a number smaller than three at small distances, as suggested by various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-18 S. Carlip , D. Grumiller

We study quantum gravity signatures emerging from phenomenologically motivated multiscale models, spectral actions, and Causal Set Theory within the detector approach to the Unruh effect. We show that while the Unruh temperature is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-07 Natalia Alkofer , Giulio D'Odorico , Frank Saueressig , Fleur Versteegen

Understanding the physical significance and spectral stability of black hole quasinormal modes is fundamental to high-precision spectroscopy with future gravitational wave detectors. Inspired by Mashhoon's idea of relating quasinormal modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-27 Sebastian H. Völkel

Formal solutions to the mode equations for both spherically symmetric black holes and Bose-Einstein condensate acoustic black holes are obtained by writing the spatial part of the mode equation as a linear Volterra integral equation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-08 Paul R. Anderson , Alessandro Fabbri , Roberto Balbinot

In this paper, infrared regularization of semi-infinite entangling regions and island formation for regions of finite size in the eternal Schwarzschild black hole are considered. We analyze whether the complementarity property and pure…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-11 D. S. Ageev , I. Ya. Aref'eva , A. I. Belokon , A. V. Ermakov , V. V. Pushkarev , T. A. Rusalev

We employ the recently proposed formalism of the "horizon wave-function" to investigate the emergence of a horizon in models of black holes as Bose-Einstein condensates of gravitons. We start from the Klein-Gordon equation for a massless…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giugno , Octavian Micu , Alessio Orlandi

The first-order semiclassical Einstein field equations are solved in the interior of the Schwarzschild-Tangherlini black holes. The source term is taken to be the stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar field with arbitrary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-19 Jerzy Matyjasek , Pawel Sadurski

We consider Unruh effect as an origin for Schwarzschild black hole entropy thus implying unitarian evolution of gravity. We simulate the black hole by set of Unruh horizons and estimate total entropy of the system. Dependence on mass and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-25 M. v. Teslyk , O. M. Teslyk , L. V. Zadorozhna

In quantum field theory applied to black hole spacetimes, substantial evidence suggests that the Unruh and Hartle-Hawking vacuum states become singular at Cauchy horizons. This raises essential questions regarding the impact of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-10 Julio Arrechea , Giulio Neri , Stefano Liberati

We develop an effective theory which describes black holes with quantum mechanical horizons that is valid at scales long compared to the Schwarzschild radius but short compared to the lifetime of the black hole. Our formalism allows one to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Walter D. Goldberger , Ira Z. Rothstein

We examine the Hawking effect by studying the asymptotic entanglement of two mutually independent two-level atoms placed at a fixed radial distance outside a Schwarzschild black hole in the framework of open quantum systems. We treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-05 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Black hole dynamical instabilities have been mostly studied in specific models. We here study the general properties of the complex-frequency modes responsible for such instabilities, guided by the example of a charged scalar field in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-04 Antonin Coutant , Florent Michel , Renaud Parentani

The Hawking-Unruh effect of thermal radiance from a black hole or observed by an accelerated detector is usually viewed as a geometric effect related to the existence of an event horizon. Here we propose a new viewpoint, that the detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu

Eigenfunctions for normal modes of scalar fields in BTZ black hole spacetime are studied. Orthonormal relations among them are derived. Quantization for scalar fields is done and particle number, energy and angular momentum are expressed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Kenmoku , M. Kuwata , K. Shigemoto

A simple ordinary differential equation is derived governing the red-shifts of wave-fronts propagating through a non-stationary spherically symmetric space-time. Approach to an event horizon corresponds to approach to a fixed point; in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Adam D. Helfer

The effect of black holes on entanglement harvesting has been of considerable interest over the past decade. Research involving stationary Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors near a (2+1)-dimensional Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-09 S. Wang , M. R. Preciado Rivas , R. B. Mann