Quasi-normal modes and microscopic description of 2D black holes

Abstract

We investigate the possibility of using quasi-normal modes (QNMs) to probe the microscopic structure of two-dimensional (2D) anti-de Sitter (AdS${}_2$) dilatonic black holes. We first extend previous results on the QNMs spectrum, found for external massless scalar perturbations, to the case of massive scalar perturbations. We find that the quasi-normal frequencies are purely imaginary and scale linearly with the overtone number. Motivated by this and extending previous results regarding Schwarzschild black holes, we propose a microscopic description of the 2D black hole in terms of a coherent state of $N$ massless particles quantized on a circle, with occupation numbers sharply peaked on the characteristic QNMs frequency $\hat{\omega }$. We further model the black hole as a statistical ensemble of $N$ decoupled quantum oscillators of frequency $\hat{\omega }$. This allows us to recover the Bekenstein-Hawking (BH) entropy $S$ of the hole as the leading contribution to the Gibbs entropy for the set of oscillators, in the high-temperature regime, and to show that $S=N$. Additionally, we find sub-leading logarithmic corrections to the BH entropy. We further corroborate this microscopic description by outlining a holographic correspondence between QNMs in the AdS${}_2$ bulk and the de Alfaro-Fubini-Furlan conformally invariant quantum mechanics. Our results strongly suggest that modelling a black hole as a coherent state of particles and as a statistical ensemble of decoupled harmonic oscillators is always a good approximation in the large black-hole mass, large overtone number limit.

arXiv comment19 pages, no figures, several typos corrected, some clarifications added. Matches version accepted for pubblication in JHEP

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