Black Hole Metamorphosis and Stabilization by Memory Burden [CL]

http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.00011


Systems of enhanced memory capacity are subjected to a universal effect of memory burden, which suppresses their decay. In this paper, we study a prototype model to show that memory burden can be overcome by rewriting stored quantum information from one set of degrees of freedom to another one. However, due to a suppressed rate of rewriting, the evolution becomes extremely slow compared to the initial stage. Applied to black holes, this predicts a metamorphosis, including a drastic deviation from Hawking evaporation, at the latest after losing half of the mass. This raises a tantalizing question about the fate of a black hole. As two likely options, it can either become extremely long lived or decay via a new classical instability into gravitational lumps. The first option would open up a new window for small primordial black holes as viable dark matter candidates.

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G. Dvali, L. Eisemann, M. Michel, et. al.
Tue, 2 Jun 20
14/90

Comments: 34 pages, 8 figures, 1 appendix