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What Can the Quantum Liquid Say on the Brane Black Hole, the Entropy of an Extremal Black Hole, and the Vacuum Energy?

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Using quantum liquids one can simulate the behavior of the quantum vacuum in the presence of the event horizon. The condensed matter analogs demonstrate that in most cases the quantum vacuum resists formation of the horizon, and even if the horizon is formed different types of the vacuum instability develop, which are faster than the process of Hawking radiation. Nevertheless, it is possible to create the horizon on the quantum-liquid analog of the brane, where the vacuum life-time is long enough to consider the horizon as the quasistationary object. Using this analogy we calculate the Bekenstein entropy of the near-extremal and extremal black holes, which comes from the fermionic microstates in the region of the horizon—the fermion zero modes. We also discuss how the cancellation of the large cosmological constant follows from the thermodynamics of the vacuum.

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  1. Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, P.O. Box 2200, FIN-02015, HUT, Finland

    G. E. Volovik

  2. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kosygina 2, 117334, Moscow, Russia

    G. E. Volovik

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Volovik, G.E. What Can the Quantum Liquid Say on the Brane Black Hole, the Entropy of an Extremal Black Hole, and the Vacuum Energy?. Foundations of Physics 33, 349–368 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023762013553

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