Quasinormal modes,the area spectrum,and black hole entropy

The results of loop quantum gravity concerning geometric operators and black hole entropy are beset by an ambiguity labeled by the Immirzi parameter. We use a result from classical gravity concerning the quasinormal mode spectrum of a black hole to fix this parameter in a new way. As a result we arrive at the Bekenstein-Hawking expression of A/4l(2)(P) for the entropy of a black hole and in addition see an indication that the appropriate gauge group of quantum gravity is SO(3) and not its covering group SU(2).     

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)     

Asymptotic quasinormal modes of scalar field in a gravity’s rainbow

In the framework of the gravity's rainbow, the asymptotic quasinormal modes of the modified Schwarzschild black holes undergoing a scalar perturbation are investigated. By using the monodromy method, we analytically calculated the asymptotic quasinormal frequencies, which depend on not only the mass parameter of the black hole, but also the particle's energy of the perturbation field. Meanwhile, the real parts of the asymptotic quasinormal modes can be expressed as T_H\ln 3, which is consistent with Hod's conjecture. In addition, for the quantum corrected black hole, the area spacing is independent of the particle's energy, even though the area itself depends on the particle's energy. And that, by relating the area spectrum to loop quantum gravity, the Barbero-Immirzi parameter is given and it remains the same as from the usual black hole.     

d-dimensional black hole entropy spectrum from quasinormal modes

Starting from recent observations about quasinormal modes, we use semiclassical arguments to derive the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy spectrum for d-dimensional spherically symmetric black holes. We find that, as first suggested by Bekenstein, the entropy spectrum is equally spaced: S(BH)=kln((m(0))n, where m(0) is a fixed integer that must be derived from the microscopic theory. As shown in O. Dreyer, gr-qc/0211076, 4D loop quantum gravity yields precisely such a spectrum with m(0)=3 providing the Immirzi parameter is chosen appropriately. For d-dimensional black holes of radius R(H)(M), our analysis predicts the existence of a unique quasinormal mode frequency in the large damping limit omega((d))(M)=alpha((d))c/R(H)(M) with coefficient [formula: see text], where m(0) is an integer.     

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.     

Quasinormal spectrum and the black hole membrane paradigm

The membrane paradigm approach to black hole physics introduces the notion of a stretched horizon as a fictitious time-like surface endowed with physical characteristics such as entropy, viscosity and electrical conductivity. We show that certain properties of the stretched horizons are encoded in the quasinormal spectrum of black holes. We compute analytically the lowest quasinormal frequency of a vector-type perturbation for a generic black hole with a translationally invariant horizon (black brane) in terms of the background metric components. The resulting dispersion relation is identical to the one obtained in the membrane paradigm treatment of the diffusion on stretched horizons. Combined with the Buchel–Liu universality theorem for the membrane's diffusion coefficient, our result means that in the long wavelength limit the black brane spectrum of gravitational perturbations exhibits a universal, purely imaginary quasinormal frequency. In the context of gauge–gravity duality, this provides yet another (third) proof of the universality of shear viscosity to entropy density ratio in theories with gravity duals.     

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.     

Quasinormal modes of a two-dimensional black hole

For a two-dimensional black hole we determine the quasinormal frequencies of the Klein–Gordon and Dirac fields. In contrast to the well known examples whose spectrum of quasinormal frequencies is discrete, for this black hole we find a continuous spectrum of quasinormal frequencies, but there are unstable quasinormal modes. In the framework of the Hod and Maggiore proposals we also discuss the consequences of these results on the form of the entropy spectrum for the two-dimensional black hole.     

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.     

Quantization of black hole entropy from unstable circular null geodesics

The quasinormal mode frequencies can be understood from the massless particles trapped at the unstable circular null geodesics and slowly leaking out to infinity. Based on this viewpoint, in this paper, we semiclassically construct the entropy spectrum of the static and stationary black holes from the null geodesics. The result shows that the spacing of the entropy spectrum only depends on the property of the black hole in the eikonal limit. Moreover, for a black hole far from the extremal case, the spacing is found to be smaller than 2π for any dimension, which is very different from the result of the previous work by using the usual quasinormal mode frequencies.     

Quasinormal Modes of Clifton–Barrow Black Holes

In this paper, we study the theoretical quasinormal modes produced by scalar perturbations around a static, spherically symmetric black hole with exterior metric described by the Clifton–Barrow solution of R ^1+δ gravity. It is found that the δ-correction increases both the real and imaginary part of the quasinormal frequency. Compared with those of ordinary Schwarzschild black hole with the same size, the oscillating quasi-period of scalar perturbation of Clifton–Barrow black hole is remarkably short for the case of low multi-pole quantum number l, while the difference of the damping time scales is slight. However, in the large l limit, the relative differences of both real and imaginary part of quasinormal modes have the same amplitude.     

Charged Quasinormal Modes and Dynamical Property of Black Hole with Global Monopole in de Sitter Spacetime

According to the basic rules of finite difference method,we calculate massive charged scalar field quasinormal modes of Reissner-Nordström-de Sitter Black Hole with a global monopole, which shows that when electronic quantity of scalar field e is comparatively small, all the factors including angular quantum number, the mass of scalar field, the size of horizon and the breaking scale will influence the frequency spectrum of quasinormal modes. When e is more than some definite critical value, second-order transition will appear and after that the curve of frequency spectrum rises, the black hole is no longer steady, which means when e is greater than some definite critical value, the structure of black hole can be changed. While the size of angular quantum number and breaking scale will influence the happening time of second-order transition. When breaking scale is less than some definite critical value, the second-order transition can be vanished.     

Area Spectrum of D-Dimensional Large Schwarzschild-AdS Black Hole from Asymptotic Quasinormal Modes

We investigate the area and entropy spectra of D-dimensional large Schwarzschild black holes. By utilizing the new physical interpretation of quasinormal mode frequency we find that a large Schwarzschild-AdS black hole has an equally spaced area spectrum and an equidistant entropy spectrum; both are dependent on the spacetime dimension.     

The ringing of quantum corrected Schwarzschild black hole with GUP

Schwarzschild black holes with quantum corrections are studied under scalar field perturbations and electromagnetic field perturbations to analyze the effect of the correction term on the potential function and quasinormal mode (QNM). In classical general relativity, spacetime is continuous and there is no existence of the so-called minimal length. The introduction of the correction items of the generalized uncertainty principle, the parameter β, can change the singularity structure of the black hole gauge and may lead to discretization in time and space. We apply the sixth-order WKB method to approximate the QNM of Schwarzschild black holes with quantum corrections and perform numerical analysis to derive the results of the method. Also, we find that the effective potential and QNM in scalar fields are larger than those in electromagnetic fields.     

Towards constraining of the Horava–Lifshitz gravities

Recently a renormalizable model of gravity has been proposed, which might be a UV completion of General Relativity (GR) or its infra-red modification, probably with a strongly coupled scalar mode. Although the generic vacuum of the theory is anti-de Sitter one, particular limits of the theory allow for the Minkowski vacuum. In this limit (though without consideration of the strongly coupled scalar field) post-Newtonian coefficients of spherically symmetric solutions coincide with those of the General Relativity. Thus the deviations from the convenient GR should be tested beyond the post-Newtonian corrections, that is for a system with strong gravity at astrophysical scales. In this Letter we consider potentially observable properties of black holes in the deformed Horava–Lifshitz gravity with Minkowski vacuum: the gravitational lensing and quasinormal modes. We have showed that the bending angle is seemingly smaller in the considered Horava–Lifshitz gravity than in GR. The quasinormal modes of black holes are longer lived and have larger real oscillation frequency in the Horava–Lifshitz gravity than in GR. These corrections should be observable in the near future experiments on lensing and by gravitational antennas, helping to constrain parameters of the Horava–Lifshitz gravity or to discard it.     

Electromagnetic Perturbations of Black Holes in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity

This paper mainly explores the electromagnetic perturbations of black holes in Gauss-Bonnet gravity and calculates the quasinormal modes for the 5-dimensional, 6-dimensional, 7-dimensional, and 8-dimensional black holes. When α increases from zero, the imaginary part of w will increase accordingly till it reaches a maximum value where it starts to decrease. When a reaches zero, the quasinormal modes will approach their Schwarzschild values. If the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter α is large enough, the quasinormal modes will be proportional to α and the oscillation frequency will become high consequently . When L is large enough, the minimum value of -Im ω will approach a value too. We calculate that value for different dimensions.     

Electromagnetic Quasinormal Modes in Hořava-Lifshitz Gravity

The electromagnetic quasinormal modes of Ho?ava-Lifshitz black hole is investigated by means of six-order WKB approach. We in this paper compare the quasinormal modes of this black hole with the charged black hole’s cases (we here take a regular charged black hole and Reissner-Nordström black hole for example). The numerical results of Ho?ava-Lifshitz’s quasinormal modes frequency show that the absolute value of imaginary part decrease as the parameter α increase. The fact means that charge in this spacetime make the quasinormal modes damp at a slower rate.     

Quasinormal modes of charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl gravity

We study quasinormal modes(QNMs)of charged black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell-Weyl(EMW)gravity by adopting the test scalar field perturbation.We find that the imaginary part of QNM frequencies is consistently negative for different angular parameters l,indicating that these modes always decay and are therefore stable.We do not observe a linear relationship between the QNM frequencyωand parameter p for these black holes,as their charge Q causes a nonlinear effect.We evaluate the massive scalar field perturbation in charged black holes and find that random long lived modes(i.e.,quasiresonances)could exist in this spectrum.     

Gravitational perturbations of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg black hole

The prospect of using gravitational wave detections via the quasinormal modes (QNMs) to test modified gravity theories is exciting area of current research. Gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by a perturbed black hole (BH) will decay as a superposition of their QNMs of oscillations at the ringdown phase. In this work, we investigate the QNMs of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) BH for both axial and polar gravitational perturbations. We obtain master equations with the tetrad formalism, and the quasinormal frequencies of the EEH BH are calculated in the 6th order Wentzel-Kramers-Brill?uin approximation. It is interesting to note that the QNMs of the EEH BH would differ from those of the Reissner-Nordstr?m BH under the EH parameter, which indicates the EH parameter would affect the gravitational perturbations for the EEH BH.     

Periodicity and area spectrum of black holes

The recent speculation of Maggiore that the periodicity of a black hole may be the origin of the area quantization law is confirmed. We exclusively utilize the period of motion of an outgoing wave, which is shown to be related to the vibrational frequency of the perturbed black hole, to quantize the horizon areas of a Schwarzschild black hole and a Kerr black hole. It is shown that the equally spaced area spectrum for both cases takes the same form and the spacing is the same as that obtained through the quasinormal mode frequencies. Particularly, for a Kerr black hole, the small angular momentum assumption, which is necessary from the perspective of quasinormal mode, is not employed as the general area spacing is reproduced.