Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

Decoherence of black hole superpositions by Hawking radiation

  • Andrew Arrasmith,
  • Andreas Albrecht,
  • Wojciech H. Zurek

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08426-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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A black hole’s Hawking radiation inevitably deposits records of its location in the environment, making isolation fundamentally impossible. Here, the authors investigate the decoherence of a black hole in a superposition of two positions due to its Hawking radiation and give the rate of this process.