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The present work investigates the entanglement entropies of the Hawking radiations, the Page times, and the scrambling times, for the eternal planar black holes in the holographic axion gravity. The solutions correspond to a new class of…

We study thermodynamic properties and the entanglement island of a black hole in asymptotically safe quantum gravity, analyzing key thermodynamic quantities such as the Hawking temperature, heat capacity, and entropy, as well as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-29 Sobhan Kazempour , Sichun Sun , Chengye Yu

We study the Page curve and the information paradox for the BTZ black hole coupled to two thermal baths by applying the island paradigm. We prove that as the island locates outside the event horizon, the entanglement entropy of Hawking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-06 Ming-Hui Yu , Cheng-Yuan Lu , Xian-Hui Ge , Sang-Jin Sin

We investigate the information paradox in the four-dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole by employing the recently proposed island paradigm. We first consider the quantum field in the four-dimensional Kerr-Newman spacetime. By employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-07 Ming-Hui Yu , Xian-Hui Ge

We reanalyze and expand upon models proposed in 2015 for linear dilaton black holes, and use them to test several speculative ideas about black hole physics. We examine ideas based on the definition of quantum extremal surfaces in quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-29 T. Banks

We show that the compactified extra dimension and the emergence of the island can provide clues about quantum gravity because their combination can solve the deepest puzzles of black hole physics. Suppose that the time dimension and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-21 Tran N. Hung , Cao H. Nam

We consider a gravity theory coupled to matter, where the matter has a higher-dimensional holographic dual. In such a theory, finding quantum extremal surfaces becomes equivalent to finding the RT/HRT surfaces in the higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-22 Ahmed Almheiri , Raghu Mahajan , Juan Maldacena , Ying Zhao

It was proposed recently that the fine-grained entropy of the Hawking radiation can be expressed by the semiclassical island formula, which reproduces the unitary Page curve. In this paper, we choose the ``in'' vacuum state and apply the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-09 Chang-Zhong Guo , Wen-Cong Gan , Fu-Wen Shu

In this work, we revisit the problem of finding entanglement islands in 2d Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity. We implement the following adjustments to the traditional setup: (1) we do not explicitly couple to a non-gravitating system, instead…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-16 Julian De Vuyst , Thomas G. Mertens

We derive a novel four-dimensional black hole with planar horizon that asymptotes to the linear dilaton background. The usual growth of its entanglement entropy before Page's time is established. After that, emergent islands modify to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-30 Georgios K. Karananas , Alex Kehagias , John Taskas

It is controversial whether entanglement islands can exist in massless gravity theories. Recently, it is found that the massless entanglement island appears in wedge holography with DGP gravity on the branes. In this paper, we generalize…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-16 Dongqi Li , Rong-Xin Miao

We consider an AdS$_2$ black hole in equilibrium with a bath, which we take to have a dual description as (0+1)-dimensional quantum mechanical system coupled to a (1+1)-dimensional field theory serving as the bath. We compute the entropies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Ahmed Almheiri , Raghu Mahajan , Juan Maldacena

The quantum extremal island rule allows us to compute the Page curves of Hawking radiation in semi-classical gravity. In this work, we study the connection between these calculations and the thermalisation of chaotic quantum many-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-20 Hanzhi Jiang , Mike Blake , Anthony P. Thompson

Recent progress in our understanding of the black hole information paradox has lead to a new prescription for calculating entanglement entropies, which involves special subsystems in regions where gravity is dynamical, called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-27 Hong Zhe Chen , Robert C. Myers , Dominik Neuenfeld , Ignacio A. Reyes , Joshua Sandor

We study the implementation of the island prescription in fuzzball-inspired models of black holes. As a simplified setup, we model a fuzzball by replacing the event horizon with a reflecting boundary (stretched horizon). In the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Dmitry S. Ageev , Anastasia N. Zueva

We study the entanglement entropy of a one-parameter family of exactly solvable gravities in the 2-dimensional asymptotically-flat space. The islands and Page curves of eternal, evaporating and bath-removed black holes are investigated. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Xuanhua Wang , Ran Li , Jin Wang

In this paper, we make use of holographic Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT) to simulate the black hole information problem in the semi-classical picture. We investigate the correlation between a portion of Hawking radiation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-25 Yi-Yu Lin , Jun Zhang , Jie-Chen Jin

In this work we systematically study the island formula in the general asymptotically flat eternal black holes in generalized dilaton gravity theories or in higher dimensional spherical black holes. Under some reasonable and mild…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 Jia Tian

The newly proposed island formula for entanglement entropy of Hawking radiation is applied to spherically symmetric 4-dimensional eternal Kaluza-Klein (KK) black hole. The "charge" $Q$ of KK black holes quantifies its deviation from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-15 Yizhou Lu , Jiong Lin

We consider black holes in 2d de Sitter JT gravity coupled to a CFT, and entangled with matter in a disjoint non-gravitating universe. Tracing out the entangling matter leaves the CFT in a density matrix whose stress tensor backreacts on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Arjun Kar , Tomonori Ugajin