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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
Is instability near a black hole key for "thermalization" of its horizon?
1Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039 India.
Abstract:
We put forward an attempt towards building a possible theoretical model to understand the observer dependent thermalization of black hole horizon. The near horizon Hamiltonian for a massless, chargeless particle is xp type. This is unstable in nature and so the horizon can induce instability in a system. The particle in turn finds the horizon thermal when it interacts with it. We explicitly show this in the Schrodinger as well as in Heisenberg pictures by taking into account the time evolution of the system under this Hamiltonian. Hence we postulate that existing instability near the horizon can be one of the potential candidates for explaining the black hole thermalization.
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