Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Scientific paper
1997-10-06
Phys.Lett. B419 (1998) 40-48
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
17 pages, LateX ; a brief note added indicating the generalization of a key result from 3+1 to d+1 dimensions; paper to appear
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(97)01460-3
Recently is was shown that the imaginary part of the canonical partition function of Schwarzschild black holes with an energy spectrum E_n = \sigma \sqrt{n} E_P, n= 1,2, ..., has properties which - naively interpreted - leads to the expected unusual thermodynamical properties of such black holes (Hawking temperature, Bekenstein-Hawking entropy etc). The present paper interprets the same imaginary part in the framework of droplet nucleation theory in which the rate of transition from a metastable state to a stable one is proportional to the imaginary part of the canonical partition function. The conclusions concerning the emerging thermodynamics of black holes are essentially the same as before. The partition function for black holes with the above spectrum was calculated exactly recently. It is the same as that of the primitive Ising droplet model for nucleation in 1st-order phase transitions in 2 dimensions. Thus one might learn about the quantum statistics of black holes by studying that Ising model, the exact complex free energy of which is presented here for negative magnetic fields, too.
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