Hawking-like radiation as tunneling from the apparent horizon in an FRW universe

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DOI10.1142/S0218271810016336zbMATH Open1187.83097arXiv0902.2542MaRDI QIDQ3559205FDOQ3559205


Authors: Tao Zhu, Ji-Rong Ren, Douglas Singleton Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 May 2010

Published in: International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study Hawking-like radiation in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe using the quasi-classical WKB/tunneling method which pictures this process as a "tunneling" of particles from behind the apparent horizon. The correct temperature of the Hawking-like radiation from the FRW spacetime is obtained using a canonical invariant tunneling amplitude. In contrast to the usual quantum mechanical WKB/tunneling problem where the tunneling amplitude has only a spatial contribution, we find that the tunneling amplitude for FRW spacetime (i.e. the imaginary part of the action) has both spatial and temporal contributions. In addition we study back reaction and energy conservation of the radiated particles and find that the tunneling probability and change in entropy, calS are related by the relationship: Gammaproptoexp[DeltacalS] which differs from the standard result Gammaproptoexp[DeltacalS]. By regarding the whole FRW universe as an isolated adiabatic system the change in the total entropy is zero. Then splitting the entropy between interior and exterior parts of the horizon (DeltacalStotal=DeltacalSint+DeltacalSext=0), we can explain the origin of the minus sign difference with the usual result: our DeltacalS is for the interior region while the standard result from black hole physics is for the exterior region.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.2542




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