Quantum optics approach to radiation from atoms falling into a black hole. Academic Article

abstract

• We show that atoms falling into a black hole (BH) emit acceleration radiation which, under appropriate initial conditions, looks to a distant observer much like (but is different from) Hawking BH radiation. In particular, we find the entropy of the acceleration radiation via a simple laser-like analysis. We call this entropy horizon brightened acceleration radiation (HBAR) entropy to distinguish it from the BH entropy of Bekenstein and Hawking. This analysis also provides insight into the Einstein principle of equivalence between acceleration and gravity.

authors

• Lee, David
• Scully, Marlan
• Svidzinsky, Anatoly

published proceedings

• Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A

altmetric score

• 10.58

author list (cited authors)

• Scully, M. O., Fulling, S., Lee, D. M., Page, D. N., Schleich, W. P., & Svidzinsky, A. A.

citation count

• 42

complete list of authors

• Scully, Marlan O||Fulling, Stephen||Lee, David M||Page, Don N||Schleich, Wolfgang P||Svidzinsky, Anatoly A

publication date

• August 2018

publisher

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  Publisher

published in

• Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

keywords

• Acceleration Radiation
• Black Hole Entropy
• Cavity Qed
• Equivalence Principle
• Hawking Radiation

PubMed Central ID

• 30030285

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1073/pnas.1807703115

start page

• 8131

end page

• 8136

volume

• 115

issue

• 32

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807703115