activity
20242026
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10 papers

gr-qc2026

Two-Horizon Sector Thermodynamics as a Diagnostic for the Bi-Hair Organization of NUT Charge

Di Wu, Robert B. Mann, Shuang-Qing Wu

After decades without a fully self-consistent thermodynamic formulation, recent proposals for Lorentzian Taub-NUT spacetime have yielded several inequivalent descriptions, each sat…

gr-qc2025

Quenched entanglement harvesting

Adrian Lopez-Raven, Robert B. Mann, Jorma Louko

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodríguez-Laguna et…

gr-qc2025

Measuring black hole spin through gravitational lensing of pulsars

Amjad Ashoorioon, Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh, Robert B. Mann

We propose a new procedure for measuring the spin of a black hole with an unprecedented accuracy based on the gravitational lensing of millisecond pulsars. We derive the basic equa…

gr-qc2025

Black Hole Chemistry: the first 15 years

Robert B. Mann

The introduction of thermodynamics into gravitational physics began 5 decades ago with the discovery that black holes behave like thermodynamic systems once semiclassical quantum e…

gr-qc2025

Thermal Fisher information for a rotating BTZ black hole

Everett A. Patterson, Robert B. Mann

Relativistic quantum metrology provides a framework within which we can quantify the quality of measurement and estimation procedures while accounting for both quantum and relativi…

gr-qc2025

Harvesting Information Across the Horizon

S. Wang, M. R. Preciado Rivas, R. B. Mann

The effect of black holes on entanglement harvesting has been of considerable interest over the past decade. Research involving stationary Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detectors near a (2+1)…