262 research outputs found
Hawking Radiation from Feynman Diagrams
The aim of this letter is to clarify the relationships between Hawking
radiation and the scattering of light by matter falling into a black hole. To
this end we analyze the S-matrix elements of a model composed of a massive
infalling particle (described by a quantized field) and the radiation field.
These fields are coupled by current-current interactions and propagate in the
Schwarzschild geometry. As long as the photons energy is much smaller than the
mass of the infalling particle, one recovers Hawking radiation since our
S-matrix elements identically reproduce the Bogoliubov coefficients obtained by
treating the trajectory of the infalling particle classically. But after a
brief period, the energy of the `partners' of Hawking photons reaches this mass
and the production of thermal photons through these interactions stops. The
implications of this result are discussed.Comment: 12 pages, revtex, no figure
Quantum metric fluctuations and Hawking radiation
In this Letter we study the gravitational interactions between outgoing
configurations giving rise to Hawking radiation and in-falling configurations.
When the latter are in their ground state, the near horizon interactions lead
to collective effects which express themselves as metric fluctuations and which
induce dissipation, as in Brownian motion. This dissipation prevents the
appearance of trans-Planckian frequencies and leads to a description of Hawking
radiation which is very similar to that obtained from sound propagation in
condensed matter models.Comment: 4 pages, revte
Hidden symmetry of the three-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell equations
It is shown how to generate three-dimensional Einstein-Maxwell fields from
known ones in the presence of a hypersurface-orthogonal non-null Killing vector
field. The continuous symmetry group is isomorphic to the Heisenberg group
including the Harrison-type transformation. The symmetry of the
Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system is also studied and it is shown that there is
the transformation between the Maxwell and the dilaton fields.
This transformation is identified with the Geroch
transformation of the four-dimensional vacuum Einstein equation in terms of the
Ka{\l}uza-Klein mechanism.Comment: 5 page
A Cure for HIV Infection: "Not in My Lifetime" or "Just Around the Corner"?
With the advent and stunning success of combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) to prolong and improve quality of life for persons with HIV infection, HIV research has been afforded the opportunity to pivot towards studies aimed at finding "a cure." The mere idea that cure of HIV might be possible has energized researchers and the community towards achieving this goal. Funding agencies, both governmental and private, have targeted HIV cure as a high priority; many in the field have responded to these initiatives and the cure research agenda is robust. In this "salon" two editors of Pathogens and Immunity, Michael Lederman and Daniel Douek ask whether curing HIV is a realistic, scalable objective. We start with an overview perspective and have asked a number of prominent HIV researchers to add to the discussion
Exactly solvable models in 2D semiclassical dilaton gravity and extremal black holes
Previously known exactly solvable models of 2D semiclassical dilaton gravity
admit, in the general case, only non-extreme black holes. It is shown that
there exist exceptional degenerate cases, that can be obtained by some limiting
transitions from the general exact solution, which include, in particular,
extremal and ultraextremal black holes. We also analyze properties of extreme
black holes without demanding exact solvability and show that for such
solutions quantum backreaction forbids the existence of ultraextreme black
holes. The conditions,under which divergencies of quantum stresses in a free
falling frame can disappear, are found. We derive the closed equation with
respect to the metric as a function of the dilaton field that enables one,
choosing the form of the metric, to restore corresponding Lagrangian. It is
demonstrated that exactly solvable models, found earlier, can be extended to
include an electric charge only in two cases: either the dilaton-gravitation
coupling is proportional to the potential term, or the latter vanishes. The
second case leads to the effective potential with a negative amplitude and we
analyze, how this fact affects the structure of spacetime. We also discuss the
role of quantum backreaction in the relationship between extremal horizons and
the branch of solutions with a constant dilaton.Comment: 31 pages. In v.2 typo in Ref. [2] corrected, 4 references added.
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Non-asymptotically flat, non-AdS dilaton black holes
We show that previously known non-asymptotically flat static black hole
solutions of Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory may be obtained as near-horizon
limits of asymptotically flat black holes. Specializing to the case of the
dilaton coupling constant , we generate from the
non-asymptotically flat magnetostatic or electrostatic black holes two classes
of rotating dyonic black hole solutions. The rotating dyonic black holes of the
``magnetic'' class are dimensional reductions of the five-dimensional
Myers-Perry black holes relative to one of the azimuthal angles, while those of
the ``electric'' class are twisted dimensional reductions of rotating dyonic
Rasheed black strings. We compute the quasi-local mass and angular momentum of
our rotating dyonic black holes, and show that they satisfy the first law of
black hole thermodynamics, as well as a generalized Smarr formula. We also
discuss the construction of non-asymptotically flat multi-extreme black hole
configurations.Comment: Minor corrections. 2 references added. To appear in Physical Review
Relating Quantum Information to Charged Black Holes
Quantum non-cloning theorem and a thought experiment are discussed for
charged black holes whose global structure exhibits an event and a Cauchy
horizon. We take Reissner-Norstr\"{o}m black holes and two-dimensional dilaton
black holes as concrete examples. The results show that the quantum non-cloning
theorem and the black hole complementarity are far from consistent inside the
inner horizon. The relevance of this work to non-local measurements is briefly
discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 2 figure
Magnetically charged solutions via an analog of the electric-magnetic duality in (2+1)-dimensional gravity theories
We find an analog of the electric-magnetic duality, which is a
transformation between magnetic and electric sectors of the static and
rotationally symmetric solutions in a class of (2+1)-dimensional
Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity theories. The theories in our consideration
include, in particular, one parameter class of theories continuously connecting
the Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) gravity and the low energy string
effective theory. When there is no charge, we have or
symmetry, depending on a parameter that specifies each theory. Via the
transformation, we obtain exact magnetically charged solutions from the known
electrically charged solutions. We explain the relationship between the
transformation and symmetry, and comment on the -duality of the
string theory.Comment: 10 pages, RevTe
De Sitter Holography with a Finite Number of States
We investigate the possibility that, in a combined theory of quantum
mechanics and gravity, de Sitter space is described by finitely many states.
The notion of observer complementarity, which states that each observer has
complete but complementary information, implies that, for a single observer,
the complete Hilbert space describes one side of the horizon. Observer
complementarity is implemented by identifying antipodal states with outgoing
states. The de Sitter group acts on S-matrix elements. Despite the fact that
the de Sitter group has no nontrivial finite-dimensional unitary
representations, we show that it is possible to construct an S-matrix that is
finite-dimensional, unitary, and de Sitter-invariant. We present a class of
examples that realize this idea holographically in terms of spinor fields on
the boundary sphere. The finite dimensionality is due to Fermi statistics and
an `exclusion principle' that truncates the orthonormal basis in which the
spinor fields can be expanded.Comment: 23 pages, 1 eps figure, LaTe
Climate-informed stochastic hydrological modeling: Incorporating decadal-scale variability using paleo data
A hierarchical framework for incorporating modes of climate variability into stochastic simulations of hydrological data is developed, termed the climate-informed multi-time scale stochastic (CIMSS) framework. A case study on two catchments in eastern Australia illustrates this framework. To develop an identifiable model characterizing long-term variability for the first level of the hierarchy, paleoclimate proxies, and instrumental indices describing the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO) and the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) are analyzed. A new paleo IPO-PDO time series dating back 440 yr is produced, combining seven IPO-PDO paleo sources using an objective smoothing procedure to fit low-pass filters to individual records. The paleo data analysis indicates that wet/dry IPO-PDO states have a broad range of run lengths, with 90% between 3 and 33 yr and a mean of 15 yr. The Markov chain model, previously used to simulate oscillating wet/dry climate states, is found to underestimate the probability of wet/dry periods >5 yr, and is rejected in favor of a gamma distribution for simulating the run lengths of the wet/dry IPO-PDO states. For the second level of the hierarchy, a seasonal rainfall model is conditioned on the simulated IPO-PDO state. The model is able to replicate observed statistics such as seasonal and multiyear accumulated rainfall distributions and interannual autocorrelations. Mean seasonal rainfall in the IPO-PDO dry states is found to be 15%-28% lower than the wet state at the case study sites. In comparison, an annual lag-one autoregressive model is unable to adequately capture the observed rainfall distribution within separate IPO-PDO states. Copyright © 2011 by the American Geophysical Union.Benjamin J. Henley, Mark A. Thyer, George Kuczera and Stewart W. Frank
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