4 papers
Universal Structure of Horizon Formation in Generic Binary Black Hole Mergers
Yu-Cun Xie, Vaishak Prasad
We derive the local structure of the first common apparent horizon in a generic binary-black-hole merger. This event occurs in the fully nonlinear regime, outside the standard regi…
Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime Approach to the Backreaction of Dynamical Casimir Effect
Yu-Cun Xie
In this thesis, we investigate the dynamical Casimir effect, the creation of particles from vacuum by dynamical boundary conditions or dynamical background, and its backreaction to…
Heat capacity and quantum compressibility of dynamical spacetimes with thermal particle creation
Jen-Tsung Hsiang, Yu-Cun Xie, Bei-Lok Hu
This work continues the investigation in two recent papers on the quantum thermodynamics of spacetimes, 1) placing what was studied in [1] for thermal quantum fields in the context…
Dynamical Vacuum Compressibility of Space
Yu-Cun Xie, Jen-Tsung Hsiang, Bei-Lok Hu
This paper continues the investigation initiated in arXiv:2204.08634 into the quantum thermodynamic properties of space by deriving the vacuum compressibility of a variety of dynam…