The charged black-hole bomb: a lower bound on the charge-to-mass ratio of the explosive scalar field

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2016.02.009zbMATH Open1367.83051arXiv1606.00444OpenAlexW2268414635MaRDI QIDQ2013224FDOQ2013224

Authors: Shahar Hod 

Publication date: 3 August 2017

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The well-known superradiant amplification mechanism allows a charged scalar field of proper mass $mu$ and electric charge $q$ to extract the Coulomb energy of a charged Reissner-Nordstr"om black hole. The rate of energy extraction can grow exponentially in time if the system is placed inside a reflecting cavity which prevents the charged scalar field from escaping to infinity. This composed black-hole-charged-scalar-field-mirror system is known as the {it charged black-hole bomb}. Previous numerical studies of this composed physical system have shown that, in the linearized regime, the inequality $q/mu>1$ provides a necessary condition for the development of the superradiant instability. In the present paper we use analytical techniques to study the instability properties of the charged black-hole bomb in the regime of linearized scalar fields. In particular, we prove that the lower bound $qovermu>sqrt{r}_{extm}/r_{-}-1over{r}_{extm}/r_{+}-1$ provides a necessary condition for the development of the superradiant instability in this composed physical system (here $r_{pm}$ are the horizon radii of the charged Reissner-Nordstr"om black hole and $r_{extm}$ is the radius of the confining mirror). This {it analytically} derived lower bound on the superradiant instability regime of the composed black-hole-charged-scalar-field-mirror system is shown to agree with direct {it numerical} computations of the instability spectrum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.00444

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57)

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