Black hole spectroscopy via adiabatic invariance

During the last years, one had to combine the proposal about how quasinormal frequencies are related with black holes and the proposal about the adiabatic invariance of black holes in order to derive the quantized entropy spectrum and its minimum change for several black holes. In this Letter we exclusively utilize the statement that the black hole horizon area is an adiabatic invariant and derive an equally spaced entropy spectrum of a black hole with its quantum to be equal to the one given by Bekenstein. Interestingly, in our approach no concept of quasi-normal mode is needed.     

Entropy Quantization from a Neutral Black String

Taking into account the Bekenstein-Hawking area law,based on the analysis of Zeng and Liu et al.that area spectrum is determined by the periodicity of an outgoing wave,we discuss on the quantization of entropy from a neutral black string.In addition,applying the adiabatic invariant quantity method proposed by Majhi and Vagenas,we further verify the entropy quantum of the neutral black string.As a result,two different methods show that the quantum of entropy is Δ S=2π,which is in agreement with Bekenstein's proposal.     

de Sitter Tunneling,Emission Spectrum and Entropy/Area Quantum

The Banerjee-Majhi's recent work shows that the Hawking radiation and entropy/area quantum of the black hole horizon (EH) can be well described in the tunneling picture. In this paper, we develop this idea to the case o a de Sitter tunneling from the cosmological horizon (CH), and obtain the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy/area spectroscopy from the CH of the purely de Sitter black hole as well as the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole. It i interestingly found that the area of the CH is quantized by A = 4l 2 pl , as was given by Hod for the area quantum of -the EH by considering the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Schwinger-type emission process. Also, we conclude from our derivation that the entropy/area quantum of the CH is universal in the sense that it is independent of the black hole parameters. This realization implies that, (at least) at a semiclassical level, the de Sitter gravity shares the similar quantum behavior as the usual gravity without presence of a cosmological constant.     

de Sitter Tunneling,Emission Spectrum and Entropy/Area Quantum

The Banerjee-Majhi's recent work shows that the Hawking radiation and entropy/area quantum of the black hole horizon (EH) can be well described in the tunneling picture. In this paper, we develop this idea to the case of a de Sitter tunneling from the cosmological horizon (CH), and obtain the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy/area spectroscopy from the CH of the purely de Sitter black hole as well as the Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole. It is interestingly found that the area of the CH is quantized by Δ A=4l_pl², as was given by Hod for the area quantum of -the EH by considering the Heisenberg uncertainty principle and Schwinger-type emission process. Also, we conclude from our derivation that the entropy/area quantum of the CH is universal in the sense that it is independent of the black hole parameters. This realization implies that, (at least) at a semiclassical level, the de Sitter gravity shares the similar quantum behavior as the usual gravity without presence of a cosmological constant.     

Loop quantum gravity and black hole entropy quantization

Using the spin networks and the asymptotic quasinormal mode frequencies of black holes given by loop quantum gravity, the minimum horizon area gap is obtained. Then the quantum area spectrum of black holes is derived and the black hole entropy is a realized quantization. The results show that the black hole entropy given by loop quantum gravity is in full accord with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy with a suitable Immirzi. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10773002)     

引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱

利用黑洞的绝热不变性,研究了引力彩虹时空中Kerr黑洞的熵谱和面积谱.首先,在引力彩虹时空背景下,计算了Kerr黑洞的绝热不变作用量,并将其与玻尔-索末菲量子化条件相结合,给出了黑洞的熵谱.得到的熵谱没有引力彩虹时空本身具有的粒子能量依赖性,且是与经典Kerr黑洞中原始贝肯斯坦熵谱相同的等间距熵谱.然后,根据黑洞热力学第一定律和黑洞熵谱,给出了与原始贝肯斯坦谱不同的面积谱.该面积谱是非等间距的,而且有对黑洞面积的依赖性,但不依赖于探测粒子的能量.面积谱表明,随着黑洞面积的减少,面积间隔逐步变小;当黑洞达到普朗克尺度时,面积量子可降为零.这表示黑洞面积不再减少,黑洞出现辐射剩余.而在忽略色散关系的修正效应或在大黑洞极限下,面积谱的修正项可以忽略,引力彩虹Kerr黑洞面积谱可以回归到原始贝肯斯坦谱.此外,对引力彩虹时空Kerr黑洞的熵进行了讨论,得到了带有面积倒数修正项的黑洞熵,分析了黑洞熵的量子修正与面积谱量子修正的一致性.     

The dynamical model and quantization of the Schwarzschild black hole

The mass of the Schwarzschild black hole, an observable quantity, is defined as a dynamical variable, while the corresponding conjugate is considered as a generalized momentum. Then a two-dimensional phase space is composed of the two variables. In the two-dimensional phase space, a harmonic oscillator model of the Schwarzschild black hole is obtained by a canonical transformation. By this model, the mass spectrum of the Schwarzschild black hole is firstly obtained. Further the horizon area operator, quantum area spectrum and entropy are obtained in the Fock representation. Lastly, the wave function of the horizon area is derived also. Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10773002) and the Natural Research Foundation of Heze University (Grant No. XY05WL02)     

Area and entropy spectra of black holes via an adiabatic invariant

By considering and using an adiabatic invariant for black holes, the area and entropy spectra of static spherically-symmetric black holes are investigated. Without using quasi-normal modes of black holes, equally-spaced area and entropy spectra are derived by only utilizing the adiabatic invariant. The spectra for non-charged and charged black holes are calculated, respectively. All these results are consistent with the original Bekenstein spectra.     

Spectroscopy of the Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole

The entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole was derived via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule in Majhi and Vagenas’s work. Extending this work to charged and rotating black holes, we quantize the horizon area and the entropy of an Einstein–Maxwell–Dilaton–Axion black hole via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule and the adiabatic invariance. The result shows the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum are respectively equally spaced and independent on the parameters of the black hole.     

Quantum gravity effects on spectroscopy of Kerr-Newman black hole in gravity’s rainbow

The effects of quantum gravity on spectroscopy for the charged rotating gravity’s rainbow are investigated in this paper. By utilizing an action invariant obtained from particles tunneling through the event horizon, the entropy and area spectrum for the modified Kerr-Newman black hole are derived. The equally spaced entropy spectrum characteristic of Bekenstein’s original derivation is recovered. And, the entropy spectrum is independent of the energy of the test particles, although the gravity’s rainbow itself is the energy dependent. Such that, the quantum gravity effects of gravity’s rainbow has no influence on the entropy spectrum. On the other hand, due to the spacetime quantum effects, the obtained area spectrum is different from the original Bekenstein spectrum. It is not equidistant and is dependent on the horizon area. And that, by analyzing the area spectrum from a specific rainbow function, a minimum area with a Planck scale is derived for the event horizon. At this point, the area quantum is zero and the black hole radiation stops. Thus, the black hole remnant for the gravity’s rainbow is obtained from the area quantization. In addition, the entropy for the modified Kerr-Newman black hole is calculated and the quantum correction to the area law is obtained and discussed.     

Hawking radiation and black hole spectroscopy in Hořava–Lifshitz gravity

Hawking radiation from the black hole in Ho?ava–Lifshitz gravity is discussed by a reformulation of the tunneling method given in Banerjee and Majhi (2009) [17]. Using a density matrix technique the radiation spectrum is derived which is identical to that of a perfect black body. The temperature obtained here is proportional to the surface gravity of the black hole as occurs in usual Einstein gravity. The entropy is also derived by using the first law of black hole thermodynamics. Finally, the spectrum of entropy/area is obtained. The latter result is also discussed from the viewpoint of quasi-normal modes. Both methods lead to an equispaced entropy spectrum, although the value of the spacing is not the same. On the other hand, since the entropy is not proportional to the horizon area of the black hole, the area spectrum is not equidistant, a finding which also holds for the Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet theory.     

Quantum corrections to the spectroscopy of a BTZ black hole via periodicity

Quantum corrections to the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum of a BTZ black hole are calculated by equaling the motion period of an outgoing wave coming from the quantum corrections of the semiclassical action to the period of gravitational system with respect to the Euclidean time. We find that the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum are independent of the properties of particles. Furthermore, in the presence of higher-order quantum corrections, the area spectrum is found to be corrected by inverse area terms while the entropy spectrum is found to have a universal form, $\varDelta S_{BH}=2\pi $ . Both results show that the entropy spectrum is independent of not only the BTZ black hole parameters but also the higher-order quantum corrections, which implies that the entropy spectrum is more natural than the area spectrum in quantum gravity theory.     

Entropy quantization of Reissner-Nordström de Sitter black hole via adiabatic covariant action

Based on the ideas of adiabatic invariant quantity, we attempt to quantize the entropy of a charged black hole in de Sitter spacetime in two different coordinates. The entropy spectrum is obtained by imposing Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule and the laws of black hole thermodynamics to the modified adiabatic covariant action of the charged black hole. The result shows that the spacing of entropy spectrum is equidistant, and the corresponding horizon area quantum is identical to Bekenstein’s result. Interestingly, in contrast to the quasinormal mode analysis, we note that there is no need to impose the small charge limit for the obtained entropy spectrum of the charged black hole. We also note that the modified adiabatic covariant action gives the same value for the black hole entropy spectrum in different coordinate frames. This is a physically desired result since the entropy spectrum should be invariant under the coordinate transformations.     

The Spectroscopy of a Plane Symmetric Black Hole

The discrete area spectrum was derived by the adiabatic invariance without quasinormal modes in recent work. In this paper, we extend this work to charged black holes and investigate the entropy spectrum of a plane symmetric black hole. The result shows that the minimal spacing of the entropy spectrum is 2π and that of the area spectrum is dependent on the theory frame of gravity.     

Spectroscopy of the Reissner–Nordström–Anti-de Sitter Black Hole via Adiabatic Invariance

By combining the black hole property of adiabaticity and the oscillating velocity of the black hole horizon, we study the entropy and the area spectra of the Reissner–Nordström–anti-de Sitter black hole. Instead of using the quasi-normal mode frequencies, we utilize the oscillating velocity of the event horizon in the tunneling framework to obtain the black hole spectroscopy via adiabatic invariance. The results show that, both of the area spectrum and the entropy spectrum are equally spaced and independent on the parameters of the black hole.     

f(T) cosmology via Noether symmetry

Using the modified Kunstatter method, which employs as proper frequency the imaginary part instead of the real part of the quasinormal modes, the entropy spectrum and area spectrum of the modified Schwarzschild black holes in gravity??s rainbow are investigated. In the current study, two cases of modified dispersion relations concerning energy dependent and energy independent speed of light are considered. The entropy spectra with equal spacing are derived in these two cases. Furthermore, the obtained entropy spectra are independent of the energy of a test particle and are the same as the one of the usual Schwarzschild black hole. Also, the same area spectrum formulas are obtained in these different dispersion relations. However, due to the quantum effect of spacetime, the obtained area spectra are not equally spaced and are different from the one of the usual Schwarzschild black hole. Besides, in these two cases, the same black hole entropy formulas with logarithmic correction to the standard Bekenstein?CHawking area formula are obtained by the adiabatic invariant. The form of area spacing formulas and entropy formulas are independent of the particle??s energy, but the area spacing and entropy can have energy dependence through the area.     

Entropy spectrum of a Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole

The entropy spectrum of a spherically symmetric black hole was derived without the quasinormal modes in the work of Majhi and Vagenas. Extending this work to rotating black holes, we quantize the entropy and the horizon area of a Kerr anti-de Sitter black hole by two methods. The spectra of entropy and area are obtained via the Bohr–Sommerfeld quantization rule and the adiabatic invariance in the first way. By addressing the wave function of emitted (absorbed) particles, the entropy and the area are quantized in the second one. Both results show that the entropy and the area spectra are equally spaced.     

Area and Entropy Spectrum of Gauss-Bonnet Gravity in de Sitter Space-Times for Black Hole Event Horizon

In this paper, we use the modified Hod's treatment and the Kunstatter's method to study the horizon area spectrum and entropy spectrum in Gauss-Bonnet de-Sitter space-time, which is regarded as the natural generalization of Einstein gravity by including higher derivative correction terms to the original Einstein-Hilbert action. The horizon areas have some properties that are very different from the vacuum solutions obtained from the frame of Einstein gravity. With the new physical interpretation of quasinormal modes, the area/entropy spectrum for the event horizon for nearextremal Gauss-Bonnet de Sitter black holes are obtained. Meanwhile, we also extend the discussion of area/entropy quantization to the non-extremal black holes solutions.     

Periodicity and area spectrum of the three dimensional BTZ black hole

Very recently, a new scheme to quantize the horizon area of a black hole has been proposed by Zeng and Liu et?al. In this paper, we further apply the analysis to investigate area spectrum of three dimensional BTZ black hole with the cosmological constant ${\Lambda=-1/l^{2}}$ . The results show that the area spectrum and entropy spectrum are independent of the cosmological constant. The area spectrum of the black hole is ${\Delta A=8\pi l_{P}^{2}}$ , which confirms the initial proposal of Bekenstein that the area spectrum is independent of the black hole parameters and the spacing is ${8\pi l_{P}^{2}}$ . This result also confirms the speculation of Maggiore that the periodicity of a black hole may be the origin of the area quantization. In addition, for the rotating and non-rotating BTZ black holes, we obtain the same entropy spectrum ${\triangle S=2\pi}$ , which is consistent with the result for other black holes. This implies that the entropy spectrum is more fundamental than the area spectrum.     

Universal canonical black hole entropy

Nonrotating black holes in three and four dimensions are shown to possess a canonical entropy obeying the Bekenstein-Hawking area law together with a leading correction (for large horizon areas) given by the logarithm of the area with a universal finite negative coefficient, provided one assumes that the quantum black hole mass spectrum has a power-law relation with the quantum area spectrum found in nonperturbative canonical quantum general relativity. The thermal instability associated with asymptotically flat black holes appears in the appropriate domain for the index characterizing this power-law relation, where the canonical entropy (free energy) is seen to turn complex.