Hawking radiation and propagation of massive charged scalar field on a three-dimensional Gödel black hole

In this paper we consider the three-dimensional Gödel black hole as a background and we study the vector particle tunneling from this background in order to obtain the Hawking temperature. Then, we study the propagation of a massive charged scalar field and we find the quasinormal modes analytically, which turns out be unstable as a consequence of the existence of closed time-like curves. Also, we consider the flux at the horizon and at infinity, and we compute the reflection and transmission coefficients as well as the absorption cross section. Mainly, we show that massive charged scalar waves can be superradiantly amplified by the three-dimensional Gödel black hole and that the coefficients have an oscillatory behavior. Moreover, the absorption cross section is null at the high frequency limit and for certain values of the frequency.     

Greybody factors and quasinormal modes for a nonminimally coupled scalar field in a cloud of strings in (2 + 1)-dimensional background

We study the propagation of a probe massless nonminimally coupled scalar field in a fixed gravitational background of a cloud of strings in (2 + 1) dimensions. We obtain exact analytical expressions for the reflection coefficient, the absorption cross section, the decay rate as well as the quasinormal frequencies. The impact of the nonminimal coupling is investigated in detail. Our results show that universality is not respected in general, and that scalar perturbations are stable.     

Absorption cross section of black holes with global monopole

We study the absorption problem for a massless scalar field propagating in general static spherically-symmetric black holes with a global monopole. The absorption cross section expression is provided using a partial-wave method, which permits us to make an elegant and powerful resummation of the absorption cross section, and to extract the physical information encoded in the sum over the partial-wave contributions.     

Absorption and radiation of nonminimally coupled scalar field from charged BTZ black hole

In this paper we investigate the absorption and radiation of nonminimally coupled scalar field from the charged BTZ black hole. We find the analytical expressions for the reflection coefficient, the absorption cross section and the decay rate in strong coupling case. We find that the reflection coefficient is directly governed by Hawking temperature \(T_{H}\), scalar wave frequency \(\omega \), Bekenstein–Hawking entropy \(S_{BH}\), angular momentum m and coupling constant \(\xi \).     

Direct measurements of nonlinear absorption and refraction in solutions of phthalocyanines

We report direct measurements of the excited singlet state absorption cross section and the associated nonlinear refractive cross section using picosecond pulses at 532 nm in solutions of phthalocyanine and naphthalocyanine dyes. By monitoring the transmittance and far field spatial beam distortion for different pulsewidths in the picosecond regime, we determine that both the nonlinear absorption and refraction are fluence (energy per unit area) rather than irradiance dependent. Thus, excited state absorption (ESA) is the dominant nonlinear absorption process, and the observed nonlinear refraction is also due to real population excitation.     

Absorption of a massless scalar wave from a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence

By using the partial wave method,we investigate the absorption of a massless scalar wave from a Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence.We obtained the expression of absorption cross section σabs(ω)=π/ω2sum from l=0 to ∞(2l+1)|Tωl(ω)|2=π/ω2sum from l=0 to ∞(2l+1)Γωl(ω).Then we numerically carry out the absorption cross section and we find that the larger the angular momentum quantum number l is,the smaller the corresponding maximum value of the partial absorption cross section is,and that the total absorption cross section tends to the geometric-optical limit σ hf abs ≈πb 2 c.We also find that higher value of ω q(state parameter of quintessence) corresponds to the higher value of absorption cross section σ abs.     

Dirac Fields in 3D de Sitter Spacetime

We show that the Dirac equation is separable in the circularly symmetric metric in three dimensions and when the background spacetime is de Sitter we find exact solutions to the radial equations. Using these results we show that the de Sitter horizon has a cross section equal to zero for the massless Dirac field, as in the case of the scalar field. Also, using the improved brick wall model we calculate the fermionic entropy associated with the de Sitter horizon and we compare it with some results previously published.     

Absorption of massless scalar wave from Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by quintessence

By using the partial wave method, we investigate the absorption of massless scalar wave from Schwarzschild black hole surrounded by the quintessence. We obtained the expression of absorption cross section
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Then we numerically carry out the absorption cross section and we find that the larger angular momentum quantum number l is, the smaller the corresponding maximum value of partial absorption cross section is, and that the total absorption cross section tends to geometric-optical limit σ_abs^hf≈ π b_c². We also find that higher value of ω_q (state parameter of the quintessence) corresponds the higher value of absorption cross section σ_abs.     

Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Using the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence, we relate the shear viscosity eta of the finite-temperature N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in the large N, strong-coupling regime with the absorption cross section of low-energy gravitons by a near-extremal black three-brane. We show that in the limit of zero frequency this cross section coincides with the area of the horizon. From this result we find eta = pi / 8N(2)T3. We conjecture that for finite 't Hooft coupling g(2)(YM)N the shear viscosity is eta = f(g(2)(YM)N)N2T3, where f(x) is a monotonic function that decreases from O(x(-2)ln(-1)(1/x)) at small x to pi/8 when x-->infinity.     

Semiclassical approach for multiparticle production in scalar theories

We propose a semiclassical approach to calculate multiparticle cross sections in scalar theories, which have been strongly argued to have the exponential form exp(λ⁻¹ F(λn, ϵ)) in the regime λ → 0, λn, ϵ = fixed, where λ is the scalar coupling, n is the number of produced particles, and ϵ is the kinetic energy per final particle. The formalism is based on singular solutions to the field equation, which satisfy certain boundary and extremizing conditions. At low multiplicities and small kinetic energies per final particle we reproduce in the framework of this formalism the main perturbative results. We also obtain a lower bound on the tree-level cross section in the ultra-relativistic regime.     

Absorption cross section in the topologically massive gravity at the critical point

The absorption cross section for the warped AdS₃ black hole background shows that it is larger than the area even if the s-wave limit is considered. It raises some question whether the deviation from the areal cross section is due to the warped configuration of the geometry or the rotating coordinate system, where these two effects are mixed up in the warped AdS₃ black hole. So, we study the low-frequency scattering dynamics of propagating scalar fields under the warped AdS₃ background at the critical point which reduces to the BTZ black hole in the rotating frame without the warped factor, which shows that the deformation effect at the critical point does not appear.     

Absorption/Scattering of Scalar Waves by Dilatonic Black Hole

We investigate the scattering and absorption cross sections of scalar waves by Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger (GHS) black hole spacetime with partial wave method. We find that the total absorption cross section oscillates around the geometric optical value, and the scattering angle width becomes narrower and the damping oscillation pattern becomes more complex as l increases. With fixed frequency ω, the main glory peak value becomes higher and the glory width becomes wider as the magnetic parameter a increases.     

Hidden conformal symmetry of self-dual warped AdS<Subscript>3</Subscript> black holes in topological massive gravity

We extend the recently proposal of hidden conformal symmetry to the self-dual warped AdS₃ black holes in topological massive gravity. It is shown that the wave equation of massive scalar field with sufficient small angular momentum can be reproduced by the SL(2, R) Casimir quadratic operator. Due to the periodic identification in the φ direction, it is found that only the left section of hidden conformal symmetry is broken to U(1), while the right section is unbroken, which only gives the left temperature of dual CFT. As a check of the dual CFT conjecture of self-warped AdS₃ black hole, we further compute the Bekenstein–Hawking entropy and absorption cross section and quasinormal modes of scalar field perturbation and show these are just of the forms predicted by the dual CFT.     

Anisotropic Inflationary Scenario Via Generalized Chaplygin Gas Model

We investigate generalized chaplygin gas for warm inflationary scenario in the context of locally rotationally symmetric Bianchi type I universe model.We assume two different cases of dissipative coefficient,i.e.,constant as well as function of scalar field.We construct dynamical equations as well as a relationship between scalar and radiation energy densities under slow-roll approximation.We also derive slow-roll parameters,scalar and tensor power spectra,scalar spectral index,tensor to scalar ratio for analyzing inflationary background during high dissipative regime.We also use the WMAP7 data for the discussion of our parameters.     

Quantum Vacuum Fluctuations in a Chromomagnetic-Like Background

In this paper, we study the effects associated to quantum vacuum fluctuations of vectorial perturbations of the Abelian SU(2) Yang-Mills field in a static and homogeneous chromomagnetic-like background field, at zero temperature. We use periodic and antiperiodic boundary conditions in order to calculate the Casimir energy by means of the frequency sum technique and of the regularization method based on zeta functions, analyzing its behavior in the weak and strong coupling regimes. We compare the obtained results with the similar ones found for scalar and spinor fields placed in an ordinary magnetic field background. We show that only in the weak coupling regime the non-trivial topology of the system encoded in the antiperiodic boundary conditions changes the nature of the Casimir force with respect to the periodic ones. Considering the weak coupling scenario, we show that the introduction of a third polarization state in the perturbations makes manifest the effects on the Casimir energy due to the coupling with the chromomagnetic-like background field, for both the boundary conditions. Finally, in the strong coupling regime, in which the quantum vacuum is not stable due to the Nielsen-Olesen instabilities, we evaluate the effects of a compact extra dimension on its stabilization.     

Superradiant Instability of D-Dimensional Reissner–Nordstr?m Black Hole Mirror System

We analytically study the superradiant instability of charged massless scalar field in the background of D-dimensional Reissner–Nordstr¨om(RN) black hole caused by mirror-like boundary condition. By using the asymptotic matching method to solve the Klein–Gordon equation that governs the dynamics of scalar field, we have derived the expressions of complex parts of boxed quasinormal frequencies, and shown they are positive in the regime of superradiance.This indicates the charged scalar field is unstable in D-dimensional Reissner–Nordstr¨om(RN) black hole surrounded by mirror. However, the numerical work to calculate the boxed quasinormal frequencies in this system is still required in the future.     

Absorption of scalars by extremal black holes in string theory

We show that the low frequency absorption cross section of minimally coupled test massless scalar fields by extremal spherically symmetric black holes in d dimensions is equal to the horizon area, even in the presence of string-theoretical \(\alpha '\) corrections. Classically one has the relation \(\sigma = 4 GS\) between that absorption cross section and the black hole entropy. By comparing in each case the values of the horizon area and Wald’s entropy, we discuss the validity of such relation in the presence of higher derivative corrections for extremal black holes in many different contexts: in the presence of electric and magnetic charges; for nonsupersymmetric and supersymmetric black holes; in \(d=4\) and \(d=5\) dimensions. The examples we consider seem to indicate that this relation is not verified in the presence of \(\alpha '\) corrections in general, although being valid in some specific cases (electrically charged maximally supersymmetric black holes in \(d=5\)). We argue that the relation \(\sigma = 4 GS\) should in general be valid for the absorption cross section of scalar fields which, although being independent from the black hole solution, have their origin from string theory, and therefore are not minimally coupled.     

Scattering and absorption of particles by a black hole involving a global monopole

Under the conditions that the wavelength of a particle is much larger than its radius of central mass, and the Schwarzschild field is weak, the scattering of a particle has been studied by many researchers. They obtained that scalar and vector particles abide by Rutherford’s angle distribution by using the low level perturbation method and the scattered field’s approximation in a weak field. The scattering cross section of a photon coincides with the section in Newton’s field of point mass. We can obtain the photon’s polarization effect by calculating the second-order perturbation in the linear Schwarzschild field. This article discusses the scattering and absorption of a particle by a black hole involving a global monopole by using the aforesaid method.     

Interband impact ionization and nonlinear absorption of terahertz radiation in semiconductor heterostructures

We have theoretically investigated nonlinear free-carrier absorption of terahertz (THz) radiation in InAs/AlSb heterojunctions. By considering multiple photon process and conduction-valence interband impact ionization (II), we have determined the field and frequency dependent absorption rate. It is shown that (i). electron-disorder scatterings are important at low to intermediate field, and (ii). most importantly, the high field absorption is dominated by II processes. Our theory can satisfactorily explain a long-standing experimental result on the nonlinear absorption in the THz regime.