Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Calmet, Xavier (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Fundamental Theories of Physics ; 178
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Gravitation.; Cosmology.; Elementary particles (Physics).; Quantum field theory.; Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory.; Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory.; Mathematical Physics.

Beginning with an overview of the theory of black holes by the editor, this book presents a collection of ten chapters by leading physicists dealing with the variety of quantum mechanical and quantum gravitational effects pertinent to black holes. The contributions address topics such as Hawking rad...

Table of Contents:

• Fundamental Physics with Black Holes (Xavier Calmet)
• Black holes and thermodynamics - The first half century (Daniel Grumiller, Robert McNees and Jakob Salzer)
• The Firewall Phenomenon (R. B. Mann)
• Monsters, Black holes and Entropy (Stephen D. H. Hsu)
• Primordial Black Holes: sirens of the early Universe (Anne M. Green)
• Self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates (Pierre-Henri Chavanis)
• Quantum Amplitudes in Black-Hole Evaporation with Local Supersymmetry (P.D.D'Eath and A.N.St.J.Farley)
• Hawking radiation from higher-dimensional black holes (Panagiota Kanti and Elizabeth Winstanley)
• Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider (Greg Landsberg)
•  Minimum length effects in black hole physics (Roberto Casadio, Octavian Micu, Piero Nicolini).