Quantum Aspects of Black Holes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Fundamental Physics with Black Holes

   • Xavier Calmet

   Pages 1-26

3. Black Holes and Thermodynamics: The First Half Century

   • Daniel Grumiller, Robert McNees, Jakob Salzer

   Pages 27-70

4. The Firewall Phenomenon

   • R. B. Mann

   Pages 71-113

5. Monsters, Black Holes and Entropy

   • Stephen D. H. Hsu

   Pages 115-128

6. Primordial Black Holes: Sirens of the Early Universe

   • Anne M. Green

   Pages 129-149

7. Self-gravitating Bose-Einstein Condensates

   • Pierre-Henri Chavanis

   Pages 151-194

8. Quantum Amplitudes in Black–Hole Evaporation with Local Supersymmetry

   • P. D. D’Eath, A. N. St. J. Farley

   Pages 195-228

9. Hawking Radiation from Higher-Dimensional Black Holes

   • Panagiota Kanti, Elizabeth Winstanley

   Pages 229-265

10. Black Holes at the Large Hadron Collider

    • Greg Landsberg

    Pages 267-292

11. Minimum Length Effects in Black Hole Physics

    • Roberto Casadio, Octavian Micu, Piero Nicolini

    Pages 293-322

Beginning with an overview of the theory of black holes by the editor, this book presents a collection of ten chapters by leading physicists dealing with the variety of quantum mechanical and quantum gravitational effects pertinent to black holes. The contributions address topics such as Hawking radiation, the thermodynamics of black holes, the information paradox and firewalls, Monsters, primordial black holes, self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates, the formation of small black holes in high energetic collisions of particles, minimal length effects in black holes and small black holes at the Large Hadron Collider. Viewed as a whole the collection provides stimulating reading for researchers and graduate students seeking a summary of the quantum features of black holes.

• Black Hole Entropy
• Classical and Quantum Gravity
• Evaporation of Black Holes
• Hawking Radiation
• Higher Dimensional Black Holes
• LHC Limits on Black Hole Physics
• Quantum Black Holes
• Quantum Spacetime
• Reviews on Quantum Black Holes
• Thermodynamics of Black Holes

• Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom

  Xavier Calmet

Xavier Calmet is a faculty member of the Theoretical Particle Physics Group at the University of Sussex. His current research interests span the interplay between particle physics and gravitational physics, grand unification, quantum gravity, physics of small black holes, the dark side of the universe (dark matter, dark energy) and information theory. He leads the working group on Quantum Black Holes that is part of the COST action: "Black Holes in a Violent Universe". Calmet is a founding editor of the Springer Briefs in Physics and a member of the editorial board of Foundations of Physics.

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