Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
1997-09-23
Phys.Rev. D57 (1998) 6269-6279
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
26 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures included with psfig. Several improvements in the presentation. One figure added. Final version to a
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.57.6269
We study the Hawking process on lattices falling into static black holes. The motivation is to understand how the outgoing modes and Hawking radiation can arise in a setting with a strict short distance cutoff in the free-fall frame. We employ two-dimensional free scalar field theory. For a falling lattice with a discrete time-translation symmetry we use analytical methods to establish that, for Killing frequency $\omega$ and surface gravity $\kappa$ satisfying $\kappa\ll\omega^{1/3}\ll 1$ in lattice units, the continuum Hawking spectrum is recovered. The low frequency outgoing modes arise from exotic ingoing modes with large proper wavevectors that "refract" off the horizon. In this model with time translation symmetry the proper lattice spacing goes to zero at spatial infinity. We also consider instead falling lattices whose proper lattice spacing is constant at infinity and therefore grows with time at any finite radius. This violation of time translation symmetry is visible only at wavelengths comparable to the lattice spacing, and it is responsible for transmuting ingoing high Killing frequency modes into low frequency outgoing modes.
Corley Steven
Jacobson Ted
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