Quantum chaos and unitary black hole evaporation

Autor: David A. Lowe, Lárus Thorlacius
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Journal of High Energy Physics, Vol 2022, Iss 5, Pp 1-14 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1029-8479
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2022)165
Popis: Abstract The formation and evaporation of small AdS black holes in a theory with a holographic dual is governed by the usual rules of quantum mechanics. The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis explains the validity of semiclassical gravity for local bulk observables and can be used to quantify the magnitude of quantum corrections to the semi-classical approximation. The holographic dual produces a basis of black hole states with finite energy width, and observables that are smooth functions on the classical phase space will self-average over a large number of energy eigenstates, exponential in the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy S, leading to results that are consistent with semiclassical gravity up to small corrections of order e −S/2. As expected, the semiclassical description breaks down for transition amplitudes that reflect the unitary evolution of the holographic theory.
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