Growing hair on black holes
- Lyman Laboratory of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
- Lauritsen Laboratory of High Energy Physics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (USA)
- School of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Olden Lane, Princeton, New Jersey (USA)
A black hole can carry quantum numbers that are {ital not} associated with massless gauge fields, contrary to the spirit of the no-hair'' theorems. In the Higgs phase of a gauge theory, electric charge on a black hole generates a nonzero electric field outside the event horizon. This field is nonperturbative in {h bar} and is exponentially screened far from the hole. It arises from the cloud of virtual cosmic strings that surround the black hole. In the confinement phase, a magnetic charge on a black hole generates a {ital classical} field that is screened at long range by nonperturbative effects. Despite the sharp difference in their formal descriptions, the electric and magnetic cases are closely similar physically.
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-81ER40050; FG02-90ER40542
- OSTI ID:
- 5178925
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 67:15; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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