Quantum source of entropy for black holes.
Quantum source of entropy for black holes.
L. Bombelli,R. Koul,J. Lee,R. Sorkin
1986 · DOI: 10.1103/PHYSREVD.34.373
Physical Review D, Particles and fields · 1,309 Citations
TLDR
This work associates to any quantum field propagating in the background metric of a black hole an effective density matrix whose statistical entropy can be interpreted as a contribution to the total entropy of the black hole.