Entropy/Area spectra of the charged black hole from quasinormal modes

With the new physical interpretation of quasinormal modes proposed by Maggiore, the quantum area spectra of black holes have been investigated recently. Adopting the modified Hod's treatment, results show that the area spectra for black holes are equally spaced and the spacings are in a unified form, $\triangle A=8\pi \hbar$, in Einstein gravity. On the other hand, following Kunstatter's method, the studies show that the area spectrum for a nonrotating black hole with no charge is equidistant. And for a rotating (or charged) black hole, it is also equidistant and independent of the angular momentum $J$ (or charge $q$) when the black hole is far from the extremal case. In this paper, we mainly deal with the area spectrum of the stringy charged Garfinkle-Horowitz-Strominger black hole, originating from effective action that emerges in the low-energy string theory. We find that both methods give the same results-that the area spectrum is equally spaced and does not depend on the charge $q$. Our study may provide new insights into understanding the area spectrum and entropy spectrum for stringy black holes.Comment: 13 pages, no figure

Domain Wall Brane in Eddington Inspired Born-Infeld Gravity

Recently, inspired by Eddington's theory, an alternative gravity called Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity was proposed by Ba$\tilde{\text{n}}$ados and Ferreira. It is equivalent to Einstein's general relativity in vacuum, but deviates from it when matter is included. Interestingly, it seems that the cosmological singularities are prevented in this theory. Based on the new theory, we investigate a thick brane model with a scalar field presenting in the five-dimensional background. A domain wall solution is obtained, and further, we find that at low energy the four-dimensional Einstein gravity is recovered on the brane. Moreover, the stability of gravitational perturbations is ensured in this model.Comment: 16 pages, 2 figures, improved versio

Using inductive Energy Participation Ratio for Superconducting Quantum Chip Characterization

We have developed an inductive energy participation ratio (iEPR) method and a concise procedure for superconducting quantum chip layout simulation and verification that is increasingly indispensable in large-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computing. It can be utilized to extract the characteristic parameters and the bare Hamiltonian of the layout in an efficient way. In theory, iEPR sheds light on the deep-seated relationship between energy distribution and representation transformation. As a stirring application, we apply it to a typical quantum chip layout, obtaining all the crucial characteristic parameters in one step that would be extremely challenging through the existing methods. Our work is expected to significantly improve the simulation and verification techniques and takes an essential step toward quantum electronic design automation