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Microscopic black-hole pairs in highly excited states
Pasi RepoJarmo Mäkeläsubject
PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)GravitonFOS: Physical sciencesOrder (ring theory)General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)State (functional analysis)General Relativity and Quantum CosmologyBlack holeQuantum mechanicsExcited stateCenter of massSchwarzschild radiusStationary statedescription
We consider the quantum mechanics of a system consisting of two identical, Planck-size Schwarzschild black holes revolving around their common center of mass. We find that even in a very highly-excited state such a system has very sharp, discrete energy eigenstates, and the system performs very rapid transitions from a one stationary state to another. For instance, when the system is in the 100th excited state, the life times of the energy eigenstates are of the order of $10^{-30}$ s, and the energies of gravitons released in transitions between nearby states are of the order of $10^{22}$ eV.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001-01-11 | Classical and Quantum Gravity |