Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2201–2204 (1998)Thermodynamics of Black Holes: An Analogy with GlassesReceived 18 March 1998; published in the issue dated 14 September 1998 The present equilibrium formulation of thermodynamics for black holes has several drawbacks, such as assuming the same temperature for black hole and heat bath. Recently this author formulated nonequilibrium thermodynamics for glassy systems. This approach is applied to black holes, with the cosmic background temperature being the bath temperature, and the Hawking temperature the internal temperature. Both Hawking evaporation and absorption of background radiation are taken into account. It is argued that black holes did not form in the very early universe. © 1998 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2201
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.2201
PACS:
04.70.Dy, 05.70.Ln, 71.55.Jv, 97.60.Lf
See AlsoComment: C. Sivaram, Comment on “Thermodynamics of Black Holes: An Analogy with Glasses”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3209 (2000). |
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