Stochastic equations in black hole backgrounds and non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.05.021zbMATH Open1229.83051arXiv1104.2461OpenAlexW1992245746MaRDI QIDQ656649FDOQ656649

Authors: Satoshi Iso, Susumu Okazawa 

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

Abstract: We apply the non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems developed in the statistical physics to the thermodynamics of black hole horizons. In particular, we consider a scalar field in a black hole background. The system of the scalar field behaves stochastically due to the absorption of energy into the black hole and emission of the Hawking radiation from the black hole horizon. We derive the stochastic equations, i.e. Langevin and Fokker-Planck equations for a scalar field in a black hole background in the $hbarightarrow0$ limit with the Hawking temperature $hbarkappa/2pi$ fixed. We consider two cases, one confined in a box with a black hole at the center and the other in contact with a heat bath with temperature different from the Hawking temperature. In the first case, the system eventually becomes equilibrium with the Hawking temperature while in the second case there is an energy flow between the black hole and the heat bath. Applying the fluctuation theorems to these cases, we derive the generalized second law of black hole thermodynamics. In the present paper, we treat the black hole as a constant background geometry. Since the paper is also aimed to connect two different areas of physics, non-equilibrium physics and black holes physics, we include pedagogical reviews on the stochastic approaches to the non-equilibrium fluctuation theorems and some basics of black holes physics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.2461

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zbMATH Keywords

black hole thermodynamicsfluctuation theoremstochastic analysis methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Black holes (83C57) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

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