| Speaker: | Aron Wall (UCSB) |
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| Title: | Why is the generalized second law true? |
| Date (JST): | Tue, Dec 17, 2013, 13:15 - 14:30 |
| Place: | Seminar Room A |
| Related File: | 1045.pdf |
| Abstract: | Black holes (and other kinds of horizons) seem to obey a generalization of the second law of thermodynamics. The entropy outside, plus a term proportional to the area, always increases. But no one knows for sure what kind of information is being counted by this area term. I will show how restricting quantum fields to the horizon enables one to elegantly prove the generalized second law. Then I will speculate on the implications for the microstates of the black hole. |
