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Quantum Fields in Curved Space
N. D. Birrell,Paul Davies +1 more
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A comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory can be found in this paper, where special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe.Abstract:
This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development. All the major technical results are presented, and the theory is developed carefully from first principles. Here is everything that students or researchers will need to embark upon calculations involving quantum effects of gravity at the so-called one-loop approximation level.read more
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Black Hole Thermodynamics
TL;DR: The discovery in the early 1970s that black holes radiate as black bodies has radically affected our understanding of general relativity, and offered us some early hints about the nature of quantum gravity as discussed by the authors.
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Lessons from the Information Paradox
TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that a copy of all the information on a Cauchy slice is also available near the boundary of the slice, leading to the information paradox.
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Radiation via tunnelling in the charged BTZ black hole
TL;DR: In this paper, the KW formalism is applied to the case of a charged BTZ black hole, with the usual Hawking result being reproduced at zeroth order in frequency.
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Rotating effects on the Dirac oscillator in the cosmic string spacetime
TL;DR: In this paper, the Dirac oscillator under the influence of noninertial effects of a rotating frame in the cosmic string spacetime was studied, and it was shown that both non-linear effects and the topology of the spacetime restrict the physical region of the space where the quantum particle can be placed.
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Logarithmic nonlinearity in theories of quantum gravity: Origin of time and observational consequences
TL;DR: In this paper, the evolution time from the group of automorphisms of the von Neumann algebra governed by this non-linear correction is analyzed. But it turns out that such time parametrization is essentially energy-dependent and becomes global only asymptotically -when the energies get very small comparing to the effective quantum gravity scale.
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Particle Creation by Black Holes
TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that quantum mechanical effects cause black holes to create and emit particles as if they were hot bodies with temperature, which leads to a slow decrease in the mass of the black hole and to its eventual disappearance.
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Foundations of the Theory of Dynamical Systems of Infinitely Many Degrees of Freedom, II
TL;DR: The notion of quantum field remains at this time still rather elusive from a rigorous standpoint as mentioned in this paper, and it was recognized very early by Bohr and Rosenfeld that even in the case of a free field, no physical meaning could be attached to the values of the field at a particular point, only the suitably smoothed averages over finite space-time regions had such a meaning.
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Evidence for the existence of gravitational radiation from measurements of the binary pulsar psr 1913+16
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TL;DR: The results of four years of timing observations of PSR 1913+16 made with the 305m telescope at the Arecibo Observatory at frequencies near 430 and 1410 MHz are summarized in this paper.
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