Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole

Coutant, Antonin; Millington, Peter

Abstract

We analyze the instability of the non-rotating fermion vacuum in Kerr spacetimes. We describe how the co-rotating Fermi sea is formed as a result of a spontaneous vacuum decay. Most significantly, and drawing upon intuition gained from analogous electrodynamic processes in supercritical fields, we show that this decay process is encoded entirely in the set of quasi-normal fermion modes.

Citation

Coutant, A., & Millington, P. (2019). Quasi-normal modes and fermionic vacuum decay around a Kerr black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 36(3), Article 035005. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 5, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Jan 14, 2019
• Publication Date: Feb 7, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jan 21, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 15, 2020
• Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity
• Print ISSN: 0264-9381
• Electronic ISSN: 1361-6382
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: 035005
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679
• Keywords: black holes, Dirac fields, quasi-normal modes, vacuum decay
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1472497
• Publisher URL: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/aaf679/meta
• Contract Date: Jan 21, 2019