Black hole entropy, loop gravity, and polymer physics
Black hole entropy, loop gravity, and polymer physics
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黑洞熵、环引力和聚合物物理
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
3.5
通讯作者:
Eugenio Bianchi
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作者:
Eugenio Bianchi
Loop gravity provides a microscopic derivation of black hole entropy. In this paper, I show that the microstates counted admit a semiclassical description in terms of shapes of a tessellated horizon. The counting of microstates and the computation of the entropy can be done via a mapping to an equivalent statistical mechanical problem: the counting of conformations of a closed polymer chain. This correspondence suggests a number of intriguing relations between the thermodynamics of black holes and the physics of polymers.