Open AccessBLACK HOLE THERMODYNAMICS FROM CALCULATIONS IN STRONGLY COUPLED GAUGE THEORY
Author(s) -
Daniel Kabat,
Gilad Lifschytz,
David A. Lowe
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of modern physics a
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.581
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1793-656X
pISSN - 0217-751X
DOI - 10.1142/s0217751x01003949
Subject(s) - physics , black hole thermodynamics , quantum mechanics , entropy (arrow of time) , gauge theory , quantum electrodynamics , mathematical physics
We develop an approximation scheme for the quantum mechanics of N D0-branes at finite temperature in the 't Hooft large-N limit. The entropy of the quantum mechanics calculated using this approximation agrees well with the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of a ten-dimensional non-extremal black hole with 0-brane charge. This result is in accord with the duality conjectured by Itzhaki, Maldacena, Sonnenschein and Yankielowicz. Our approximation scheme provides a model for the density matrix which describes a black hole in the strongly-coupled quantum mechanics.
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