2012/08/31 by Borun D. Chowdhury, Andrea Puhm
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Black hole complementarity #Black hole information paradox #Complementarity (molecular biology) #Computer science #Computer security #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Entropy (arrow of time) #Extremal black hole #Firewall (physics) #Gravitational wave #Hawking radiation #Micro black hole #Network packet #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum #Quantum decoherence #Quantum entanglement #Quantum mechanics #Theoretical physics #Wave packet #White hole #gr-qc #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.88.063509
published as Phys. Rev. D 88, 063509 (2013) · 14 pages, 6 figures; v3: References added, discussions of some parts changed substantially, conclusions unaltered
arxiv created 2012/10/29 · openalex publication_date 2013/09/06 · arxiv updated 2015/06/11 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
Recently, Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski, and Sully have suggested a Gedankenexperiment to test black hole complementarity. They claim that the postulates of black hole complementarity are mutually inconsistent and choose to give up the ``absence of drama'' for an infalling observer. According to them, the black hole is shielded by a firewall no later than Page time. This has generated some controversy. We find that an interesting picture emerges when we take into account objections from the advocates of fuzzballs. We reformulate Almheiri, Marolf, Polchinski, and Sully's Gedankenexperiment in the decoherence picture of quantum mechanics and find that low energy wave packets interact with the radiation quanta rather violently while high energy wave packets do not. This is consistent with Mathur's recent proposal of fuzzball complementarity for high energy quanta falling into fuzzballs.