More Excitement Across the Horizon

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Main Authors: Preciado-Rivas, María R., Naeem, Manar, Mann, Robert B., Louko, Jorma
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Published: 2024
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author Preciado-Rivas, María R.
Naeem, Manar
Mann, Robert B.
Louko, Jorma
author_facet Preciado-Rivas, María R.
Naeem, Manar
Mann, Robert B.
Louko, Jorma
contents An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole, with the scalar field prepared in the Hartle-Hawking state. We give extensive numerical results as a function of the detector's energy gap, the black hole's mass, and the detector's drop-off radius. Our results suggest that the effect is robust, motivating a search for a similar effect in other black hole spacetimes, and calling for an explanation of the physical origin of the effect.
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spellingShingle More Excitement Across the Horizon
Preciado-Rivas, María R.
Naeem, Manar
Mann, Robert B.
Louko, Jorma
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
An Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector falling radially into a four-dimensional Schwarzschild black hole, coupled linearly to a massless scalar field that has been prepared in the Hartle-Hawking or Unruh state, has recently been shown to exhibit a local extremum in its transition probability near the black hole horizon [K.K. Ng et al., New J. Phys. 24 (2022) 103018]. We show that a similar phenomenon is present in the transition rate of a UDW detector falling radially into a spinless Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole, with the scalar field prepared in the Hartle-Hawking state. We give extensive numerical results as a function of the detector's energy gap, the black hole's mass, and the detector's drop-off radius. Our results suggest that the effect is robust, motivating a search for a similar effect in other black hole spacetimes, and calling for an explanation of the physical origin of the effect.
title More Excitement Across the Horizon
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14908