4 papers
Horizon Thermodynamics on Nice Slices of the Causal Diamond
Ian Nagle
There is a deep link between gravity and thermodynamics; in a precise way gravity can be derived from entanglement entropy in conformal field theories. However, this depends crucia…
Transition to light-like trajectories in thin shell dynamics
Robert B. Mann, Ian Nagle, Daniel R. Terno
It was recently shown that a massive thin shell that is sandwiched between a flat interior and an exterior geometry given by the outgoing Vaidya metric becomes null in a finite pro…
Fluid Dynamics and Entropic Gravity
Ian Nagle
A new entropic gravity inspired derivation of general relativity from thermodynamics is presented. This generalizes, within Einstein gravity, the "Thermodynamics of Spacetime" appr…
Hawking Radiation and Entropic Gravity
Ian Nagle
I present a new derivation of Hawking radiation by applying the Crooks fluctuation theorem to the laws of black hole thermodynamics. Then, by analogy with the quantum fluctuation t…