Quantum buoyancy, generalized second law, and higher-dimensional entropy bounds

DOI10.1007/JHEP12(2010)033MaRDI QIDQ407064zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Shahar Hod

Publication date 29 August 2014

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.3151

zbMATH Keywords

black holesfield theories in higher dimensions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Black holes (83C57) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Abstract: Bekenstein has presented evidence for the existence of a universal upper bound of magnitude $2piR/hbarc$ to the entropy-to-energy ratio $S/E$ of an arbitrary {it three} dimensional system of proper radius $R$ and negligible self-gravity. In this paper we derive a generalized upper bound on the entropy-to-energy ratio of a $(D+1)$-dimensional system. We consider a box full of entropy lowered towards and then dropped into a $(D+1)$-dimensional black hole in equilibrium with thermal radiation. In the canonical case of three spatial dimensions, it was previously established that due to quantum buoyancy effects the box floats at some neutral point very close to the horizon. We find here that the significance of quantum buoyancy increases dramatically with the number $D$ of spatial dimensions. In particular, we find that the neutral (floating) point of the box lies near the horizon only if its length $b$ is large enough such that $b/b_C>F(D)$, where $b_C$ is the Compton length of the body and $F(D)sim{D}^{D/2}gg1$ for $Dgg1$. A consequence is that quantum buoyancy severely restricts our ability to deduce the universal entropy bound from the generalized second law of thermodynamics in higher-dimensional spacetimes with $Dgg1$. Nevertheless, we find that the universal entropy bound is always a sufficient condition for operation of the generalized second law in this type of gedanken experiments.

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