Essay: The Quantum Gravitational Black Hole Is Neither Black Nor White

Understanding the end state of black hole evaporation, the microscopic origin of black hole entropy, the information loss paradox, and the nature of the singularity arising in gravitational collapse - these are outstanding challenges for any candidate quantum theory of gravity. Recently, a midisuperspace model of quantum gravitational collapse has been solved using a lattice regularization scheme. It is shown that the mass of an eternal black hole follows the Bekenstein spectrum, and a related argument provides a fairly accurate estimate of the entropy. The solution also describes a quantized mass-energy distribution around a central black hole, which in the WKB approximation, is precisely Hawking radiation. The leading quantum gravitational correction makes the spectrum non-thermal, thus providing a plausible resolution of the information loss problem.     

Hawking Radiation from Charged Kerr Black Hole Beyond Semi-classical Approximation

The Hawking radiation from charged Kerr black hole via the method beyond semi-classical approximation is studied. In our work, we apply the WKB approximation method and the quantum tunneling method, then calculate the tunneling rate and further correct Hawking entropy to charged Kerr black hole. It is shown that the result is still in agreement with the unitary theory, the entropy of the black hole contains three parts: the usual Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, the logarithmic term and the inverse area term. Apart from coefficients, our correction to the charged Kerr black hole entropy is consistent with results of loop quantum gravity.     

Entropy correction to stationary black hole via fermions tunneling beyond semiclassical approximation

Recently, fermions tunneling beyond semiclassical approximation from an uncharged static black hole was investigated by Majhi, which was based on the work of Banerjee and Majhi, it was found that the black hole entropy correction can be produced as the quantum effect of a particle is taken into account. In this paper, we further extend this idea to the stationary Kerr black hole to discuss its entropy correction. To get the corrections correctly, the proportionality parameters of quantum corrections of action I _i to the semiclassical action I ₀ in this case are regarded as the inverse of the product of Planck Length and Planck Mass. The result shows that entropy corrections to the stationary black hole also include the logarithmic term and inverse area term in Bekenstein–Hawking entropy beyond semiclassical approximation.     

Black Hole Entropies of the Thin Film Model and the Membrane Model Without Cutoffs

Taking into account the effect of the generalized uncertainty principle on the generalized black hole entropy and tacking the thin film brick-wall model, we calculate the entropy of the quantum scalar field in generalized static black hole. The Bekenstein–Hawking entropies of all well-known static black holes are obtained. The entropy of 2-D membrane just at the event horizon of static black hole is also calculated, and the result of the black hole entropy proportional to the event horizon area can be obtained more easily and generally. This discussion shows that black hole entropy is just identified with the entropy of the quantum field on the event horizon. The difference from the original brick-wall model is that the present result is convergent without any cutoff and the little mass approximation is removed. With residue theorem, the integral difficulty in the calculation of black hole entropy is overcome.     

利用广义不确定关系计算 Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter黑洞的统计力学熵

利用广义不确定关系修正的态密度方程并采用Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) 近似方法, 计算了Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter (RNdS) 黑洞时空中标量场的统计力学熵. 结果表明, 由这种方法得到的黑洞熵与它的内、外视界面积和宇宙视界面积之和成正比, 这与采用其他方法所得的结果一致, 从而揭示了黑洞熵与视界面积之间的内在联系, 也进一步表明了黑洞熵是视界面上量子态的熵, 是一种量子效应.     

Black holes and beyond

The black hole information paradox forces us into a strange situation: we must find a way to break the semiclassical approximation in a domain where no quantum gravity effects would normally be expected. Traditional quantizations of gravity do not exhibit any such breakdown, and this forces us into a difficult corner: either we must give up quantum mechanics or we must accept the existence of troublesome ‘remnants’. In string theory, however, the fundamental quanta are extended objects, and it turns out that the bound states of such objects acquire a size that grows with the number of quanta in the bound state. The interior of the black hole gets completely altered to a ‘fuzzball’ structure, and information is able to escape in radiation from the hole. The semiclassical approximation can break at macroscopic scales due to the large entropy of the hole: the measure in the path integral competes with the classical action, instead of giving a subleading correction. Putting this picture of black hole microstates together with ideas about entangled states leads to a natural set of conjectures on many long-standing questions in gravity: the significance of Rindler and de Sitter entropies, the notion of black hole complementarity, and the fate of an observer falling into a black hole.     

Entropy of Kerr-Newman Black Hole to All Orders in the Planck Length

Using the quantum statistical method, the difficulty of solving the wave equation on the background of the black hole is avoided. We directly solve the partition functions of Bose and Fermi field on the background of an axisymmetric Kerr-Newman black hole using the new equation of state density motivated by the generalized uncertainty principle in the quantum gravity. Then near the black hole horizon, we calculate entropies of Bose and Fermi field between the black hole horizon surface and the hypersurface with the same inherent radiation temperature measured by an observer at an infinite distance. In our results there are not cutoffs and little mass approximation introduced in the conventional brick-wall method. The series expansion of the black hole entropy is obtained. And this series is convergent. It provides a way for studying the quantum statistical entropy of a black hole in a non-spherical symmetric spacetime.     

利用广义不确定关系计算Reissner-Nordstrm-de Sitter黑洞的统计力学熵

利用广义不确定关系修正的态密度方程并采用Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin(WKB)近似方法,计算了Reissner-Nordstrm-de Sitter(RNdS)黑洞时空中标量场的统计力学熵.结果表明,由这种方法得到的黑洞熵与它的内、外视界面积和宇宙视界面积之和成正比,这与采用其他方法所得的结果一致,从而揭示了黑洞熵与视界面积之间的内在联系,也进一步表明了黑洞熵是视界面上量子态的熵,是一种量子效应.     

轴对称黑洞的量子统计熵

避开了求解黑洞背景下波动方程的因难,应用量子统计方法,通过应用在量子引力中、由广义测不准关系得出的新态密度方程,直接求解轴对称Kerr黑洞背景下玻色场和费米场的配分函数.然后,在视界附近计算黑洞背景下玻色场和费米场的熵.得到用收敛级数表达的黑洞熵.在计算中不存在用brick wall模型计算黑洞熵时出现的发散项和小质量近似,使人们对非球对称时空中黑洞的统计熵有更深入的认识. 关键词： 量子统计 非球对称时空 广义测不准关系 黑洞熵     

广义不确定关系与整体单极黑洞Dirac场的熵

将广义不确定关系引入新的态密度方程，采用WKB近似方法，对含整体单极黑洞Dirac场的熵进行了直接计算，所得黑洞熵与它的视界面积成正比，以此揭示了黑洞熵是其视界面处量子态的熵.与brick-wall模型方法不同，该结果不需要取任何截断.同时表明，用此方法不仅可以计算黑洞标量场的熵，而且可以计算Dirac场的熵.     

量子史瓦茨黑洞和暗物质

引入Sommerfeld作用量量子化条件来处理Schwarzschild黑洞的量子化问题. 发现此类量子化黑洞存在一个质量为m_G=123m_p的基态，处于基态的量子Schwarzschild黑洞不再存在Hawking蒸发和任何其他辐射，可名之曰暗星. 它的存在不仅可以解决信息丢失的疑难，而且极可能是构成暗物质的主要候选者. 关键词： 量子史瓦茨黑洞 暗物质     

Entropy of Non-stationary and Slowly Changing Reissner-Nordström Black Hole

Simplifying Dirac equation near the horizon, Hawking temperature is obtained by applying a new tortoise coordinate transformation. Using the improved thin film brick-wall model and WKB approximation, the entropy of Dirac field in the non-stationary and slowly changing Reissner-Nordström black hole is calculated. The result shows that the entropy of the black hole is still proportional to the horizon area, and black hole entropy is just identical to the entropy of the quantum state at the horizon. In addition, the new tortoise coordinate transformation can make the cut-off parameter introduced in solving the entropy of non-stationary black hole simplified to the same as that in the static and stationary cases.     

Entropy is conserved in Hawking radiation as tunneling: A revisit of the black hole information loss paradox

We revisit in detail the paradox of black hole information loss due to Hawking radiation as tunneling. We compute the amount of information encoded in correlations among Hawking radiations for a variety of black holes, including the Schwarzchild black hole, the Reissner–Nordström black hole, the Kerr black hole, and the Kerr–Newman black hole. The special case of tunneling through a quantum horizon is also considered. Within a phenomenological treatment based on the accepted emission probability spectrum from a black hole, we find that information is leaked out hidden in the correlations of Hawking radiation. The recovery of this previously unaccounted for information helps to conserve the total entropy of a system composed of a black hole plus its radiations. We thus conclude, irrespective of the microscopic picture for black hole collapsing, the associated radiation process: Hawking radiation as tunneling, is consistent with unitarity as required by quantum mechanics.     

Entropy Conservation of Linear Dilaton Black Holes in Quantum Corrected Hawking Radiation

It has been shown recently that information is lost in the Hawking radiation of the linear dilaton black holes in various theories when applying the tunneling formalism of Parikh and Wilczek without considering quantum gravity effects. In this paper, we recalculate the emission probability by taking into account the log-area correction to the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the statistical correlation between quanta emitted. The crucial role of the quantum gravity effects on the information leakage and black hole remnant is highlighted. The entropy conservation of the linear dilaton black holes is discussed in detail. We also model the remnant as an extreme linear dilaton black hole with a pointlike horizon in order to show that such a remnant cannot radiate and its temperature becomes zero. In summary, we show that the information can also leak out of the linear dilaton black holes together with preserving unitarity in quantum mechanics.     

广义测不准关系与三维BTZ黑洞熵

通过应用在量子引力中,由广义测不准关系得出的新的态密度方程,研究三维BTZ背景下黑洞的熵.当取广义测不准关系中引入的,具有Planck量级与空间维数有关的常数λ为特定值时,得到BTZ黑洞Bekenstein-Hawking 熵和修正项.由于利用新的态密度方程,在计算中不存在用brick-wall模型计算黑洞熵时出现的发散项和小质量近似.所得结论,从量子统计力学角度给出了黑洞Bekenstein-Hawking 熵的修正值,使人们对黑洞熵的修正值有更深入的认识. 关键词： 广义测不准关系 量子统计 BTZ黑洞熵     

Quantum Statistical Entropy of Dielectric Black Hole

Using the new equation of state density from the generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity, we study statistical entropy of a dielectric black hole. When λ introduced in the generalized uncertainty principle takes a specific value, we find that the leading term of the statistical entropy of the dielectric black hole takes the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy form. In addition a finite correction term is also obtained. Comparing with the original brick-wall model, in our calculation there is no divergence and the small mass approximation is also not needed.     

Measurability at Planck’s scales, coherence loss, and black holes quantum entropy

It is noted that in the quantum theory at Planck’s scales (Early Universe), with introduction of the fundamental length, the measuring procedure is changed, leading to the density-matrix deformation. This deformation is described explicitly, and its inferences may be used for the determination of pure and mixed states in the associated quantum mechanics, for Hawking’s Problem solution in case of the coherence loss on black hole evaporation, and in calculations of the black hole quantum entropy. The text was submitted by the author in English.     

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.     

Logarithmic corrections to $${\mathcal{N} = 2}$$ black hole entropy: an infrared window into the microstates

Logarithmic corrections to the extremal black hole entropy can be computed purely in terms of the low energy data—the spectrum of massless fields and their interaction. The demand of reproducing these corrections provides a strong constraint on any microscopic theory of quantum gravity that attempts to explain the black hole entropy. Using quantum entropy function formalism we compute logarithmic corrections to the entropy of half BPS black holes in N=2{{\mathcal N}=2} supersymmetric string theories. Our results allow us to test various proposals for the measure in the OSV formula, and we find agreement with the measure proposed by Denef and Moore if we assume their result to be valid at weak topological string coupling. Our analysis also gives the logarithmic corrections to the entropy of extremal Reissner–Nordstrom black holes in ordinary Einstein–Maxwell theory.