Suppressing Hawking radiation by quantum Zeno effect

Nikolić, Hrvoje (2014) Suppressing Hawking radiation by quantum Zeno effect. Physics Letters B, 733 . pp. 6-10. ISSN 0370-2693

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Abstract

We present evidence that quantum Zeno effect, otherwise working only for microscopic systems, may also work for large black holes (BH's). The expectation that a BH geometry should behave classically at time intervals larger than the Planck time t_Pl indicates that the quantum process of measurement of classical degrees of freedom takes time of the order of t_Pl. Since BH has only a few classical degrees of freedom, such a fast measurement makes a macroscopic BH strongly susceptible to the quantum Zeno effect, which repeatedly collapses the quantum state to the initial one, the state before the creation of Hawking quanta. By this mechanism, Hawking radiation from a BH of mass M is strongly suppressed by a factor of the order of m_Pl/M.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Hawking radiation; quantum Zeno effect; black hole
Subjects:	NATURAL SCIENCES > Physics
Divisions:	Theoretical Physics Division
Projects:	Project title Project leader Project code Project type Fundamental interactions in elementary particle physics and cosmology (Fundamentalne interakcije u fizici elementarnih čestica i kozmologiji) Goran Duplančić 098-0982930-2864 MZOS
Depositing User:	Hrvoje Nikolić
Date Deposited:	14 Jun 2016 09:21
URI:	http://fulir.irb.hr/id/eprint/2871
DOI:	10.1016/j.physletb.2014.04.017

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