An emergent Van der Waals-like description of black hole entropy

9 May 2017, 09:40
20m
Talk STARS2017

Speaker

Pedro Bargueno (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia)

Description

A semiclassical statistical mechanical approach to black hole entropy based on Van der Waals horizon thermodynamics for the Schwarzschild–de Sitter solution has been developed. Emphasis on the emergence of spacetime atoms and their relationship with particular observers have lead us to propose a simple physical model through which areas are quantized in accordance with other approaches.

Primary authors

Pedro Bargueno (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia) Dr Ernesto Contreras (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia) Mr Andres Vargas (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia)

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