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Black Hole Thermalization, D0 Brane Dynamics, And Emergent Spacetime, Paul L. Riggins '12, Vatche Sahakian
Black Hole Thermalization, D0 Brane Dynamics, And Emergent Spacetime, Paul L. Riggins '12, Vatche Sahakian
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When matter falls past the horizon of a large black hole, the expectation from string theory is that the configuration thermalizes and the information in the probe is rather quickly scrambled away. The traditional view of a classical unique spacetime near a black hole horizon conflicts with this picture. The question then arises as to what spacetime does the probe actually see as it crosses a horizon, and how does the background geometry imprint its signature onto the thermal properties of the probe. In this work, we explore these questions through an extensive series of numerical simulations of D0 branes. …