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most citedQuantum superradiance on static black hole space-times

21 citations · 50 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

gr-qc2023

Adiabatic inspirals under electromagnetic radiation reaction on Kerr spacetime

Ethan J German, Kevin Cunningham, Visakan Balakumar +2

A compact body in orbit about a black hole loses orbital energy and angular momentum through radiation-reaction processes, inspiralling towards the black hole until a final plunge.…

hep-th2023

Superradiance and quantum states on black hole space-times

Visakan Balakumar, Rafael Bernar, Elizabeth Winstanley

We consider the definition of the Boulware and Hartle-Hawking states for quantum fields on black hole space-times. The properties of these states on a Schwarzschild black hole have…

hep-th2022★ 14 cited

Quantization of a charged scalar field on a charged black hole background

Visakan Balakumar, Rafael P. Bernar, Elizabeth Winstanley

We study the canonical quantization of a massless charged scalar field on a Reissner-Nordstrom black hole background. Our aim is to construct analogues of the standard Boulware, Un…

gr-qc2020★ 21 cited

Quantum superradiance on static black hole space-times

Visakan Balakumar, Rafael P. Bernar, Luis C. B. Crispino +1

We study the quantum analogue of the classical process of superradiance for a massless charged scalar field on a static charged black hole space-time. We show that an "in" vacuum s…

gr-qc2020

Hadamard parametrix of the Feynman Green's function of a five-dimensional charged scalar field

Visakan Balakumar, Elizabeth Winstanley

The Hadamard parametrix is a representation of the short-distance singularity structure of the Feynman Green's function for a quantum field on a curved space-time background. Subtr…

gr-qc2019★ 15 cited

Hadamard renormalization for a charged scalar field

Visakan Balakumar, Elizabeth Winstanley

The Hadamard representation of the Green's function of a quantum field on a curved space-time is a powerful tool for computations of renormalized expectation values. We study the H…