Quasiparticle picture of black holes and the entropy-area relation

2002/12/31 by Norihiro Iizuka, Daniel Kabat, Gilad Lifschytz +1 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.67.124001

published as Phys.Rev.D67:124001,2003 · 20 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures. v2: references added

arxiv created 2003/01/06 · openalex publication_date 2003/06/02 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We propose an effective description of 0-brane black holes, in which the black hole is modeled as a gas of noninteracting quasiparticles in dual quantum mechanics. This simple model is shown to account for many of the static thermodynamic properties of the black hole. It also accounts for dynamical properties, such as the rate at which energy gets thermalized by the black hole. We use the model to show that the entropy of quantum mechanics is proportional to the black hole horizon area in Planck units.

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