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We state and explain the total rate at which a charged non-rotating black hole emits charged particles, taking into account both Hawking radiation and Schwinger pair production simultaneously. We give concrete formulae for this emission…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 George Johnson

The description of quantum tunnelling in the presence of gravity shows subtleties in some cases. Here we discuss wormhole production in the context of the spherically symmetric thin-shell approximation. By presenting a fully consistent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Stefano Ansoldi , Takahiro Tanaka

Hawking radiation from black holes has been studied as a phenomenon of quantum tunneling of particles through their horizons. We have extended this approach to study the tunneling of Dirac particles from a large class of black holes which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Usman A. Gillani , K. Saifullah

This thesis investigates cosmological particle production within Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes, both as a dark matter mechanism and through analog simulations using Bose-Einstein condensates. While a full theory of Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Álvaro Parra-López

We study quantum mechanical tunneling using complex solutions of the classical field equations. Simple visualization techniques allow us to unify and generalize previous treatments, and straightforwardly show the connection to the standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-21 Sebastian F. Bramberger , George Lavrelashvili , Jean-Luc Lehners

We substantiate the Hawking radiation as quantum tunneling of fields or particles crossing the horizon by using the Rindler coordinate. The thermal spectrum detected by an accelerated particle is interpreted as quantum tunneling in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-10 Sang Pyo Kim

We first revisit Hartle and Hawking's path integral derivation of Hawking radiation. In the first point of view, we interpret that a particle-antiparticle pair is created and the negative energy antiparticle falls into the black hole. On…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-19 Dong-han Yeom

We describe in detail the quantum tunneling of massive particles from Kerr black hole by using complex trajectories, which are solutions to the Hamilton's equations of motion with imaginary proper time. The trajectories are smooth and cover…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-12 Cesim K. Dumlu

In this work, we study Hawking radiation from a general static black hole due to tunnelling of particle having nonzero mass. Hawking temperature has been calculated using both the tunnelling method and the Hamilton-Jacobi method and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-01 Ritabrata Biswas , Nairwita Mazumder , Subenoy Chakraborty

Production of high-energy gravitational objects is a common feature of gravitational theories. The primordial universe is a natural setting for the creation of black holes and other nonperturbative gravitational entities. Cosmic black holes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Eun-Joo Ahn , Marco Cavaglia

We propose conformal invariance as a fundamental symmetry governing cosmological particle creation from vacuum fluctuations, employing a phenomenological approach with an ideal fluid action to address the long-standing back-reaction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Victor Berezin , Inna Ivanova , Anastasia Kuprina

At low temperature T we expect vacuum tunneling processes to occur in superfluid $^{4}$ He films. We distinguish between extrinsic processes, in which single vortices nucleate by tunneling off boundaries in the system, and intrinsic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-16 Michael J. Desrochers , Dominic Marchand , P. C. E. Stamp

An investigation into Schwinger pair production mechanisms is presented, demonstrating that vacuum tunneling processes can be effectively controlled through electromagnetic potential modulation while maintaining the strong ffelds in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 D. D. Su , B. F. Shen , Q. Z. Lv

Back reaction of the particle creation on the quantum tunneling process is analyzed in real time formalism. We use quantum potential method in which whole quantum dynamics is exactly projected to a classical Hamilton-Jacobi equation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fumiaki Shibata , Masahiro Morikawa , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Masahide Yamaguchi

Different approaches to quantum gravity conclude that black holes may possess an inner horizon, in addition to the (quantum corrected) outer `Schwarzschild' horizon. In this paper we assume the existence of this inner horizon and explain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Ramon Torres

We address the issue of (quantum) black hole formation by particle collision in quantum physics. We start by constructing the horizon wave-function for quantum mechanical states representing two highly boosted non-interacting particles that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Roberto Casadio , Octavian Micu , Fabio Scardigli

In the past, Hawking radiation was viewed as a tunneling process and the barrier was just created by the outgoing particle itself. In this paper, Parikh's recent work is extended to the case of massive particles' tunneling. We investigate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yapeng Hu , Jingyi Zhang , Zheng Zhao

We study tunneling of massless particles through quantum horizon of a Schwarzschild black hole where quantum gravity effects are taken into account. These effects are encoded in the existence of natural cutoffs as a minimal length, a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Kourosh Nozari , S. Saghafi

We investigate the basic theoretical issues in the quantum entanglement of particle pairs created from the vacuum in a time-dependent background field or spacetime. Similar to entropy generation from these processes which depends on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-07 Shih-Yuin Lin , Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu

We show that "particle production" by gravitational field, especially the Hawking effect, may be treated as some quantum inertial effect, with the energy of Hawking radiation as some vacuum energy shift. This quantum inertial effect is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-23 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen