Coherent and squeezed states in black-hole evaporation

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.01.020zbMATH Open1247.83081arXivgr-qc/0603092OpenAlexW1994786084MaRDI QIDQ454032FDOQ454032

Authors: A. N. St. J. Farley, P. D. D'Eath 

Publication date: 30 September 2012

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

Abstract: In earlier Letters, we adopted a complex approach to quantum processes in the formation and evaporation of black holes. Taking Feynman's $+iepsilon$ prescription, rather than than one of the more usual approaches, we calculated the quantum amplitude (not just the probability density) for final weak-field configurations following gravitational collapse to a black hole with subsequent evaporation. What we have done is to find quantum amplitudes relating to a pure state at late times following black-hole matter collapse. Such pure states are then shown to be susceptible to a description in terms of coherent and squeezed states - in practice, this description is not very different from that for the well-known highly-squeezed final state of the relic radiation background in inflationary cosmology. The simplest such collapse model involves Einstein gravity with a massless scalar field. The Feynman approach involves making the boundary-value problem for gravity and a massless scalar field well-posed. To define this, let T be the proper-time separation, measured at spatial infinity, between two space-like hypersurfaces on which initial (collapse) and final (evaporation) data are posed. Then, in this approach, one rotates T by a complex phase exp(-idelta) into the lower half-plane. In an adiabatic approximation, the resulting quantum amplitude may be expressed in terms of generalised coherent states of the quantum oscillator, and a physical interpretation is given. A squeezed-state representation, as above, then follows.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0603092

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zbMATH Keywords

black-hole evaporationFeynman's \(+i\epsilon \) prescription

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Black holes (83C57)

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