Charged black holes in the infinite derivative theory of gravity

The infinite derivative theory of gravity is a generalization of Einstein gravity with many interesting properties,but the black hole solutions in this theory are still not fully understood.In the paper,we concentrate on studying the charged black holes in such a theory.Adding the electromagnetic field part to the effective action,we show how the black hole solutions around the Reissner-Nordstrom metric can be solved perturbatively and iteratively.We further calculate the corresponding temperature,entropy and electrostatic potential of the black holes and verify the first law of thermodynamics.     

Regular black holes in UV self-complete quantum gravity

In this Letter we investigate the role of regular (curvature singularity-free) black holes in the framework of UV self-complete quantum gravity. The existence of a minimal length, shielding the trans-Planckian regime to any physical probe, is self-consistently included into the black hole probe itself. In this way we obtain to slightly shift the barrier below the Planck length, with the UV self-complete scenario self-consistently confirmed.     

On the Origin of Black-Hole Entropy

A simple statistical interpretation of the origin of black hole entropy is presented. It is shown that this entropy can be understood as emerging as a result of missing information about the exact state of the matter from which the black hole was formed.     

Quantum geometrodynamics: whence,whither?

Quantum geometrodynamics is canonical quantum gravity with the three-metric as the configuration variable. Its central equation is the Wheeler–DeWitt equation. Here I give an overview of the status of this approach. The issues discussed include the problem of time, the relation to the covariant theory, the semiclassical approximation as well as applications to black holes and cosmology. I conclude that quantum geometrodynamics is still a viable approach and provides insights into both the conceptual and technical aspects of quantum gravity.

These considerations reveal that the concepts of spacetime and time itself are not primary but secondary ideas in the structure of physical theory. These concepts are valid in the classical approximation. However, they have neither meaning nor application under circumstances when quantum-geometrodynamical effects become important. ...There is no spacetime, there is no time, there is no before, there is no after. The question what happens “next” is without meaning [1].

Dedicated to the memory of John Archibald Wheeler.     

Letter: The Petrov Type of the Five-Dimensional Myers-Perry Metric

We point out that the Myers-Perry metric in five dimensions is algebraically special. It has Petrov type 22, which is the Petrov type of the five-dimensional Schwarzschild metric.     

Accretion onto Charged Black Holes in Einstein and Massive Theories of Gravity *

The accretion process is being investigated onto some important black holes such as Born-Infeld-AdS black hole, non-linear charged black hole solution in AdS space-time and Einstein-Yang-Mills massive gravity in the presence of Born-Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics. We find out the relations of radial velocity, energy density and change of mass for mention black holes and analyze their behavior graphically for different values of equation of state parameters $\omega$. We also examine the relations for critical speed for these black holes. It is observed that for different state parameters different fluids exhibit different evolutions in black holes backgrounds. The energy density of some fluids is negative or positive near the black hole while other fluids become cause to increase or decrease in black hole mass.     

An Alternative Study about the Geometry and the First Law of Thermodynamics for AdS Lovelock Gravity,Using the Definition of Conserved Charges

In this work, we introduce an extension of the study of the first law of thermodynamics of black holes based on the geometry of the extended phase space for AdS Lovelock gravities, which includes changes in scales. As expected, the result obtained coincides with the previously known four-dimensional case. For higher dimensions, the result is the rise of two new contributions to the first law of thermodynamics. The first term corresponds to corrections of the usual definition of thermodynamic volumes at the horizon due to the presence of the higher curvature terms. The second term arises in odd dimensions, comes from the asymptotic region, and corresponds to a scale transformation of the form ∝δ^ln(l/ℓ), with l the AdS radius and ℓ a parameter. A particularly interesting case corresponds to the Chern Simons gravity where the change scale does not generate a contribution at the asymptotic region, likely due to the Chern Simons AdS local symmetry.     

Determination of Gravitomagnetic Field Through GRBs or X-ray Pulsars

In gauge theory of gravity, there is direct coupling between the spin of a particle and gravitomagnetic field, which will affect Landau level. In the surface of a neutron star or near a black hole, the coupling energy between spin and gravitomagnetic field can be large and detectable. Precise measurement of the position of spectrum lines of the corresponding emission or absorption can help us to determine the gravitomagnetic field and electromagnetic field simultaneously. The ratio ΔE_e/ΔE_p can be served as a quantitative criteria of black hole. In GRBs or X-ray pulsar, absorption spectral lines of electron were observed. If the absorption spectral lines of electron, neutron and proton can be observed simultaneously, using the method given in this paper, we can determine the gravitomagnetic field in the surface of the star, and discriminate black hole from neutron star.     

The simplest black holes

A relativistic gravitational theory in (1 + 1) dimensions is presented which exhibits many of the qualitative features of (3 + 1)-dimensional general relativity. The field equations are simple enough for undergraduates to solve yet rich enough in structure to form a useful pedagogical example for exploring the qualitative features of relativistic gravitation. Black hole solutions to the field equations of the theory are derived and its relationship to Newtonian gravity is discussed in detail.     

Higher Dimensional Rotating Black Hole Solutions in Quadratic f(R) Gravitational Theory and the Conserved Quantities

We explore the quadratic form of the f(R)=R+bR2 gravitational theory to derive rotating N-dimensions black hole solutions with ai,i≥1 rotation parameters. Here, R is the Ricci scalar and b is the dimensional parameter. We assumed that the N-dimensional spacetime is static and it has flat horizons with a zero curvature boundary. We investigated the physics of black holes by calculating the relations of physical quantities such as the horizon radius and mass. We also demonstrate that, in the four-dimensional case, the higher-order curvature does not contribute to the black hole, i.e., black hole does not depend on the dimensional parameter b, whereas, in the case of N>4, it depends on parameter b, owing to the contribution of the correction R2 term. We analyze the conserved quantities, energy, and angular-momentum, of black hole solutions by applying the relocalization method. Additionally, we calculate the thermodynamic quantities, such as temperature and entropy, and examine the stability of black hole solutions locally and show that they have thermodynamic stability. Moreover, the calculations of entropy put a constraint on the parameter b to be b<116Λ to obtain a positive entropy.     

Continuous‐variable quantum information processing

Observables of quantum systems can possess either a discrete or a continuous spectrum. For example, upon measurements of the photon number of a light state, discrete outcomes will result whereas measurements of the light's quadrature amplitudes result in continuous outcomes. If one uses the continuous degree of freedom of a quantum system for encoding, processing or detecting information, one enters the field of continuous‐variable (CV) quantum information processing. In this paper we review the basic principles of CV quantum information processing with main focus on recent developments in the field. We will be addressing the three main stages of a quantum information system; the preparation stage where quantum information is encoded into CVs of coherent states and single‐photon states, the processing stage where CV information is manipulated to carry out a specified protocol and a detection stage where CV information is measured using homodyne detection or photon counting.     

The Kantowski-Sachs Space-Time in Loop Quantum Gravity

We extend the ideas introduced in the previous work to a more general space-time. In particular we consider the Kantowski-Sachs space time with space section with topology . In this way we want to study a general space time that we think to be the space time inside the horizon of a black hole. In this case the phase space is four dimensional and we simply apply the quantization procedure suggested by loop quantum gravity and based on an alternative to the Schroedinger representation introduced by H. Halvorson. Through this quantization procedure we show that the inverse of the volume density and the Schwarzschild curvature invariant are upper bounded and so the space time is singularity free. Also in this case we can extend dynamically the space time beyond the classical singularity. PACS number: 04.60.Pp, 04.70.Dy     

Firewalls as artefacts of inconsistent truncations of quantum geometries

In this paper we argue that a firewall is simply a manifestation of an inconsistent truncation of non‐perturbative effects that unitarize the semiclassical black hole. Namely, we show that a naive truncation of quantum corrections to the Hawking spectrum at order , inexorably leads to a “localised” divergent energy density near the black hole horizon. Nevertheless, in the same approximation, a distant observer only sees a discretised spectrum and concludes that unitarity is achieved by effects. This is due to the fact that instead, the correct quantum corrections to the Hawking spectrum go like . Therefore, while at a distance far away from the horizon, where , quantum corrections are perturbative, they do diverge close to the horizon, where . Nevertheless, these “corrections” nicely re‐sum so that correlations functions are smooth at the would‐be black hole horizon. Thus, we conclude that the appearance of firewalls is just a signal of the breaking of the semiclassical approximation at the Page time, even for large black holes.     

The tune of love and the nature(ness) of spacetime

The black hole information paradox is among the most outstanding puzzles in physics. I argue here there is yet another black hole quandary which, in light of the recent direct detection of gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO, reveals a new window to probe the nature of spacetime in the forthcoming era of ‘precision gravity.'     

Evaporation of microscopic black holes in string theory and the bound on species

We address the question how string compactifications with D‐branes are consistent with the black hole bound, which arises in any theory with number of particle species to which the black holes can evaporate. For the Kaluza‐Klein particles, both longitudinal and transversal to the D‐branes, it is relatively easy to see that the black hole bound is saturated, and the geometric relations can be understood in the language of species‐counting. We next address the question of the black hole evaporation into the higher string states and discover, that contrary to the naive intuition, the exponentially growing number of Regge states does not preclude the existence of semi‐classical black holes of sub‐stringy size. Our analysis indicates that the effective number of string resonances to which such micro black holes evaporate is not exponentially large but is bounded by N = 1/g_s², which suggests the interpretation of the well‐known relation between the Planck and string scales as the saturation of the black hole bound on the species number. In addition, we also discuss some other issues in D‐brane compactifications with a low string scale of order TeV, such as the masses of light moduli fields.     

Quantum Optical Detection of the Holographic Principle

This paper proposes a quantum optical method for the detection of length fluctuations due to the holographic principle. This optical interferometric alternative to the atomic interferometry proposed by Y. Jack Ng [1] would be simpler for an experimentalist to conduct.     

Weak gravity conjecture from conformal field theory: a challenge from hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes

We search for a possible relationship between weak gravity conjecture (WGC) and conformal field theory (CFT) in hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes. We deal with the critical points of the black hole systems using the correlation function introduced in CFT and discuss WGC conditions using the imaginary part of the energy obtained from the critical points and their poles. Under the assumptions \begin{document}$ z=1 $\end{document}, \begin{document}$ d=1 $\end{document}, and \begin{document}$ \theta\rightarrow0^{-} $\end{document}, we link WGC to hyperscaling violating black holes owing to the existence of \begin{document}$ r_{H} $\end{document} values larger and smaller than one. For the second black hole system, we study the conditions of WGC for Kerr-Newman-AdS black holes using rotation and radius parameters. Then, we show that the conditions of WGC are satisfied when the charged particle near the hyperscaling violating and Kerr-Newman black holes is \begin{document}$ \frac{1}{a} $\end{document} with a ratio \begin{document}$ \frac{a}{\ell}\ll 1 $\end{document}.     

黑洞信息佯谬

黑洞信息佯谬作为理论物理领域最著名的问题之一,长期以来一直被认为是研究量子引力的重要途径。黑洞信息佯谬的一个核心问题是给出在黑洞蒸发过程中的佩奇曲线行为。近一年,对该问题的研究迎来了突破性进展。研究人员第一次在半经典引力框架下实现了对佩奇曲线的计算,表明黑洞在蒸发过程中信息可以被释放出来,不存在信息丢失问题。文章将按照历史发展的顺序,对黑洞信息佯谬这一重要问题以及最新进展进行介绍,包括霍金辐射、佩奇曲线、全息原理、广义熵、量子极端面和量子极端孤岛等重要内容。     

Spin-2 Quantum Gauge Theories and Perturbative Gauge Invariance

In the framework of causal perturbation theory we analyze the gauge structure of a massless self-interacting quantum tensor field. We look at this theory from a pure field theoretical point of view without assuming any geometrical aspect from general relativity. To first order in the perturbation expansion of the S-matrix we derive necessary and sufficient conditions for such a theory to be gauge invariant, by which we mean that the gauge variation of the self-coupling with respect to the gauge charge operator Q is a divergence in the sense of vector analysis. The most general trilinear self-coupling of the graviton field turns out to be the one derived from the Einstein–Hilbert action plus divergences and coboundaries.