Black Holes, Information Loss, and Hidden Variables
| dc.creator | Valentini, Antony | |
| dc.date | 2004-07-06 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T04:17:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T04:17:08Z | |
| dc.description | We consider black-hole evaporation from a hidden-variables perspective. It is suggested that Hawking information loss, associated with the transition from a pure to a mixed quantum state, is compensated for by the creation of deviations from Born-rule probabilities outside the event horizon. The resulting states have non-standard or 'nonequilibrium' distributions of hidden variables, with a specific observable signature - a breakdown of the sinusoidal modulation of quantum probabilities for two-state systems. Outgoing Hawking radiation is predicted to contain statistical anomalies outside the domain of the quantum formalism. Further, it is argued that even for a macroscopic black hole, if one half of an entangled EPR-pair should fall behind the event horizon, the other half will develop similar statistical anomalies. We propose a simple rule, whereby the relative entropy of the nonequilibrum (hidden-variable) distribution generated outside the horizon balances the increase in von Neumann entropy associated with the pure-to-mixed transition. It is argued that there are relationships between hidden-variable and von Neumann entropies even in non-gravitational physics. We consider the possibility of observing anomalous polarisation probabilities, in the radiation from primordial black holes, and in the atomic cascade emission of entangled photon pairs from black-hole accretion discs. | |
| dc.description | 50 pages, latex, no figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407032 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0407032 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/52632 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.subject | General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Black Holes, Information Loss, and Hidden Variables | |
| dc.type | text |