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Quantum physics at scales large compared to the Planck scale is described in the framework of classical space-time geometries. A criterion for selecting these backgrounds out of quantized gravity is proposed. It leads to an instability of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 F. Englert

About thirty years ago, Bekenstein and Hawking introduced three basic concepts relating to black hole, namely, the "area entropy", "gravitation temperature" and "thermal radiation". The author analyzes these concepts systematically and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xinyong Fu

Although we know that black holes are characterized by a temperature and an entropy, we do not yet have a satisfactory microscopic ``statistical mechanical'' explanation for black hole thermodynamics. I describe a new approach that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 S. Carlip

The first law of thermodynamics at black hole horizons is known to be obtainable from the gravitational field equations. A recent study claims that the contributions at inner horizons should be considered in order to give the conventional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-20 Yan-Gang Miao , Fang-Fang Yuan , Zheng-Zheng Zhang

A brief overview of the discovery that macroscopic black holes are thermodynamical systems is presented. They satisfy the laws of thermodynamics and are associated with a temperature and an entropy equal to one quarter of their horizon area…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-31 Alejandro Perez

We have shown that changes occur in a (2+1)-dimensional charged black hole by adding a charged probe. The particle increases the entropy of the black hole and guarantees the second law of thermodynamics. The first law of thermodynamics is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-01 Bogeun Gwak , Bum-Hoon Lee

Comparing black hole thermodynamics with the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics for laboratory systems, it is found that some basic assumptions (required by experimental facts) in laboratory thermodynamics do not hold for black hole…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-20 Hiromi Saida

When the cosmological constant, $\Lambda$, is interpreted as a thermodynamic variable in the study of black hole thermodynamics a very rich structure emerges. It is natural to interpret $\Lambda$ as a pressure and define the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Brian P. Dolan

We study the first law of black hole thermodynamics in the presence of surrounding gravitational fields and argue that variations of these fields are naturally incorporated in the first law by defining gravitational tension or gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-03 Jay Armas , Niels A. Obers , Marco Sanchioni

As the interaction between the black holes and highly energetic infalling charged matter receives quantum corrections, the basic laws of black hole mechanics have to be carefully rederived. Using the covariant phase space formalism, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-29 Ana Bokulić , Tajron Jurić , Ivica Smolić

The modeling of black holes is an important desideratum for any quantum theory of gravity. Not only is a classical black hole metric sought, but also agreement with the laws of black hole thermodynamics. In this paper, we describe how these…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Nick Huggett , Keizo Matsubara

This paper presents a comprehensive exploration of the thermodynamics of black holes, focusing on foundational concepts such as free energy, entropy, and topological numbers, alongside a detailed examination of quantum RN black holes. By…

General Physics · Physics 2024-08-19 Wen-Xiang Chen

We discuss the existence, stability and classical thermodynamics of four-dimensional, spherically symmetric black hole solutions of the Einstein equations with a conformally coupled scalar field. We review the solutions existing in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Elizabeth Winstanley

There would be a perfect correspondence between the laws of classical thermodynamics and black hole thermodynamics, except for the apparent failure of black hole thermodynamics to correspond to the Third Law. The classical Third Law of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. J. Meyer

Black holes are some of the most interesting objects in the universe. While they first arise in the complicated behavior of general relativity, the physical laws ruling their behavior are surprisingly simple. For example, one of the core…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-20 Caio César Rodrigues Evangelista , Níckolas de Aguiar Alves

We consider the thermodynamics of rotating and charged asymptotically de Sitter black holes. Using Hamiltonian perturbation theory techniques, we derive three different first law relations including variations in the cosmological constant,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-22 Brian P. Dolan , David Kastor , David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann , Jennie Traschen

The physical version and equilibrium state version of the first law of thermodynamics for a black object consisting of n-dimensional charged stationary axisymmetric black hole surrounded by $a$ black rings, the so-called black Saturn was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marek Rogatko

The analogy between the laws of black hole mechanics and the laws of thermodynamics led Bekenstein and Hawking to argue that black holes should be considered as real thermodynamic systems that are characterised by entropy and temperature.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Dimitris Moustos

This thesis is focussed to study various aspects of black hole physics. Our approach is a semi-classical type, where the spacetime geometry of black holes is considered to be classical but the fields moving in the background are quantum in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-18 Sujoy Kumar Modak

Although we have convincing evidence that a black hole bears an entropy proportional to its surface (horizon) area, the ``statistical mechanical'' explanation of this entropy remains unknown. Two basic questions in this connection are: what…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-02-03 Rafael D. Sorkin