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Published on: November 15, 2013
Black hole thermodynamics from calculations in strongly coupled gauge theory
D Kabat1, G Lifschytz, D A Lowe
1Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Abstract:
We develop an approximation scheme for the quantum mechanics of N D0-branes at finite temperature in the 't Hooft large- N limit. The entropy of the quantum mechanics calculated using this approximation agrees well with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a ten-dimensional nonextremal black hole with 0-brane charge. This result is in accordance with the duality conjectured by Itzhaki, Maldacena, Sonnenschein, and Yankielowicz [Phys. Rev. D 58, 046004 (1998)]. Our approximation scheme provides a model for the density matrix which describes a black hole in the strongly coupled quantum mechanics.
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