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Title: Hawking radiation as tunneling from the Kerr and Kerr-Newman black holes

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. College of Physical Science and Technology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079 (China)

Recent work, which treats the Hawking radiation as a semiclassical tunneling process at the horizon of the Schwarzschild and Reissner-Nordstroem spacetimes, indicates that the exact radiant spectrum is no longer pure thermal after considering the black hole background as dynamical and the conservation of energy. In this paper, we extend the method to investigate Hawking radiation as massless particles tunneling across the event horizon of the Kerr black hole and that of charged particles from the Kerr-Newman black hole by taking into account the energy conservation, the angular momentum conservation, and the electric charge conservation. Our results show that when self-gravitation is considered, the tunneling rate is related to the change of Bekenstein-Hawking entropy and the derived emission spectrum deviates from the pure thermal spectrum, but is consistent with an underlying unitary theory.

OSTI ID:
20782637
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 73, Issue 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.064003; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English