Quantum theory of charged isolated horizons

Sahlmann H, Eder K (2018)


Publication Language: English

Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Publisher: AMER PHYSICAL SOC

Book Volume: 97

Journal Issue: 8

DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.97.086016

Abstract

We describe the quantum theory of isolated horizons with electromagnetic or non-Abelian gauge charges in a setting in which both the gauge and gravitational field are quantized. We consider the distorted case, and its spherically symmetric limit. We show that the gravitational horizon d.o.f. give rise to the Bekenstein-Hawking relation, with lower-order terms giving some corrections for small black holes. We also demonstrate that one can include matter d.o.f. in the state counting. We show that one can expect (potentially divergent) contributions proportional to the area, as well as logarithmic corrections proportional to the horizon charge. This is qualitatively similar to results on matter contributions obtained with other methods in the literature.

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APA:

Sahlmann, H., & Eder, K. (2018). Quantum theory of charged isolated horizons. Physical Review D, 97(8). https://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.086016

MLA:

Sahlmann, Hanno, and Konstantin Eder. "Quantum theory of charged isolated horizons." Physical Review D 97.8 (2018).

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