Controlled Hawking Process by Quantum Energy Teleportation

TL;DR

This paper proposes a quantum energy teleportation method to extract energy from black holes by using quantum information protocols, enabling energy retrieval from black holes through local operations based on measurement results.

Contribution

It introduces a novel quantum energy teleportation protocol applied to black holes, combining quantum information theory with black hole physics to extract energy.

Findings

Energy can be effectively retrieved from black holes using QET.

The process involves measurement-dependent local operations outside the horizon.

Positive-energy wave packets are absorbed, while negative-energy packets are emitted, reducing black hole mass.

Abstract

In this paper, a new quantum mechanical method to extract energy from black holes with contracting horizons is proposed. The method is based on a gedanken experiment on quantum energy teleportation (QET), which has been recently proposed in quantum information theory. We consider this QET protocol for N massless fields in near-horizon regions of large-mass black holes with near-horizon geometry described by the Minkowski metric. For each field, a two-level spin is strongly coupled with the local quantum fluctuation outside the horizon during a short time period. After the measurement of N fields, N-bit information is obtained. During the measurement, positive-energy wave packets of the fields form and then fall into the black hole. The amount of excitation energy is independent of the measurement result. After absorption of the wave packets and increase of the black hole mass, a measurement-result-dependent local operation of the N fields is performed outside the horizon. Then, accompanying the extraction of positive energy from the quantum fluctuation by the operation, negative-energy wave packets of the fields form and then fall into the black hole, decreasing the black hole mass. This implies that a part of the absorbed positive energy emitted from the measurement devices is effectively retrieved from the black hole via the measurement results.