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We are interested in black holes in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). We study the simple model of static black holes: the horizon is made of a given number of identical elementary surfaces and these small surfaces all behaves as a spin-s system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Etera R. Livine , Daniel R. Terno

In the context of partial entanglement entropy (PEE), we study the entanglement structure of the island phases realized in several 2-dimensional holographic set-ups. The self-encoding property of the island phase changes the way we evaluate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-07 Debarshi Basu , Jiong Lin , Yizhou Lu , Qiang Wen

We explore the Hawking evaporation of two-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS$_2$), dilatonic black hole coupled with conformal matter, and derive the Page curve for the entanglement entropy of radiation. We first work in a semiclassical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-01 Mariano Cadoni , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna

We study the structure and dynamics of entanglement in CFTs and black holes. We use a local entanglement measure, the entanglement contour, which is a spatial density function for von Neumann entropy with some additional properties. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Andrew Rolph

Recent works have revealed that quantum extremal islands can contribute to the fine-grained entropy of black hole radiation reproducing the unitary Page curve. In this paper, we use these results to assess if an observer in de Sitter space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-16 Lars Aalsma , Watse Sybesma

Obtaining the Page curve in the context of eternal black holes associated with top-down non-conformal holographic thermal duals at intermediate coupling, has been entirely unexplored in the literature. We fill this gap in the context of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-07 Gopal Yadav , Aalok Misra

High-frequency quasi-periodic oscillations detected in the light curves of black hole candidates can, according to one model, be identified with hydrodynamic oscillations of the accretion disc. We describe a non-linear coupling mechanism,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Barbara T. Ferreira , Gordon I. Ogilvie

We examine the basic assumptions in the original setup of the firewall paradox. The main claim is that a single mode of the lathe radiation is maximally entangled with the mode inside the horizon and simultaneously with the modes of early…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-04 John Hutchinson , Dejan Stojkovic

We discuss holographic models of extremal and non-extremal black holes in contact with a bath in d dimensions, based on a brane world model introduced in arXiv:2006.04851. The main benefit of our setup is that it allows for a high degree of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-02 Hong Zhe Chen , Robert C. Myers , Dominik Neuenfeld , Ignacio A. Reyes , Joshua Sandor

Black holes in general relativity are characterized by their trapping horizon, a one-way membrane that can be crossed only inwards. The existence of trapping horizons in astrophysical black holes can be tested observationally using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-27 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Pawan Kumar , Wenbin Lu

In recent years, there is a huge progress in understanding the black hole information problem, and the key is that the black hole entropy of radiation should be calculated by the island formula, which describes the Page curve to ensure the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Haocheng Zhong

The recent first detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from binary black hole mergers has spurred a renewed interest in possible deviations from General Relativity (GR), since they could be detected in the GWs emitted by such systems. Of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-03 Hugo Roussille

We consider a class of two-dimensional dilaton gravity models with linear dilaton vacuum including Callan-Giddings-Harvey-Strominger (CGHS) model as the special case. General thermodynamic properties of black holes in such models are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-11 Maxim Fitkevich

We use quantum extremal island method to study the information paradox on certain cosmological setups known as three dimensional Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes. To do so, we couple an auxiliary flat bath system to this spacetime in timelike…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-09 Sanam Azarnia , Reza Fareghbal

In this article, we investigate the proposed duality between the island and the defect extremal surface (DES) prescriptions using the fine-grained entanglement entropy in Karch-Randall (KR) brane-world models with gravitating radiation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-02 Ankur Dey

Generic non-equilibrium many-body systems display a linear growth of bipartite entanglement entropy in time, followed by a volume law saturation. In stark contrast, the Page curve dynamics of black hole physics shows that the entropy peaks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Rishabh Jha , Salvatore R. Manmana , Stefan Kehrein

This paper investigates the challenges and resolutions in computing the entanglement entropy for the quantum field theory coupled to de Sitter (dS) gravity along a timelike boundary. The conventional island formula, originally designed to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-14 Peng-Xiang Hao , Taishi Kawamoto , Shan-Ming Ruan , Tadashi Takayanagi

From a conceptual point of view, this chapter may be viewed as an exercise in combining quantum field theory and general relativity in a controlled setting. Despite its apparent simplicity, this exercise is deeply rooted in highly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Badis Ydri

In an ordinary quantum field theory, the "split property" implies that the state of the system can be specified independently on a bounded subregion of a Cauchy slice and its complement. This property does not hold for theories of gravity,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-13 Suvrat Raju

Entanglement in random states has turned into a useful approach to quantum thermalization and black hole physics. In this article, we refine and extend the `random unitaries framework' to quantum field theories (QFT), and to include…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Javier M. Magan , Stefan Vandoren