Entropy/information flux in Hawking radiation

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Main Authors: Alonso-Serrano, Ana, Visser, Matt
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Published: 2015
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author Alonso-Serrano, Ana
Visser, Matt
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Visser, Matt
contents Blackbody radiation contains (on average) an entropy of 3.9\pm2.5 bits per photon. If the emission process is unitary, then this entropy is exactly compensated by "hidden information" in the correlations. We extend this argument to the Hawking radiation from GR black holes, demonstrating that the assumption of unitarity leads to a perfectly reasonable entropy/information budget. The key technical aspect of our calculation is a variant of the "average subsystem" approach developed by Page, which we extend beyond bipartite pure systems, to a tripartite pure system that considers the influence of the environment.
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spellingShingle Entropy/information flux in Hawking radiation
Alonso-Serrano, Ana
Visser, Matt
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
Blackbody radiation contains (on average) an entropy of 3.9\pm2.5 bits per photon. If the emission process is unitary, then this entropy is exactly compensated by "hidden information" in the correlations. We extend this argument to the Hawking radiation from GR black holes, demonstrating that the assumption of unitarity leads to a perfectly reasonable entropy/information budget. The key technical aspect of our calculation is a variant of the "average subsystem" approach developed by Page, which we extend beyond bipartite pure systems, to a tripartite pure system that considers the influence of the environment.
title Entropy/information flux in Hawking radiation
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
High Energy Physics - Theory
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.01890