Tunnelling from black holes and tunnelling into white holes

2007/04/30 by B. Chatterjee, Bhramar Chatterjee, A. Ghosh +2 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Engineering #Hawking radiation #Micro black hole #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect #Quantum mechanics #Quantum tunnelling #Sonic black hole #gr-qc #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2008.02.034

published as Phys.Lett.B661:307-311,2008 · REVTeX, 6 pages; changed interpretation for white hole spacetimes; to appear in PLB

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Abstract

Hawking radiation is nowadays being understood as tunnelling through black hole horizons. Here, the extension of the Hamilton–Jacobi approach to tunnelling for non-rotating and rotating black holes in different non-singular coordinate systems not only confirms this quantum emission from black holes but also reveals the new phenomenon of absorption into white holes by quantum mechanical tunnelling. The rôle of a boundary condition of total absorption or emission is also clarified.

Citations

• Hawking temperature from tunnelling formalism
• Black holes and thermodynamics
• The four laws of black hole mechanics
• Particle creation by black holes
• Black Holes and Entropy
• A SECRET TUNNEL THROUGH THE HORIZON

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