Double Hawking temperature: from black hole to de Sitter

TL;DR

This paper explores the origin and implications of the double Hawking temperature in black hole and de Sitter horizons, revealing how it relates to quantum tunneling, entangled pair creation, and single particle processes.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of the double Hawking temperature phenomenon, connecting it to tunneling processes and entanglement in black hole and de Sitter spacetimes.

Findings

Double Hawking temperature arises from combined tunneling contributions.

Entangled particle pairs are created at the black hole horizon.

Single non-entangled particles are produced in de Sitter spacetime.

Abstract

The double Hawking temperature $T=2T_H$ appears in some approaches to the Hawking radiation, when the radiation is considered in terms of the quantum tunneling. We consider the origin of such temperature for the black hole horizon and also for the cosmological horizon in de Sitter spacetime. In case the black hole horizon, there are two contributions to the tunneling process of radiation, each being governed by the temperature $T=2T_H$. These processes are coherently combined to produce the radiation with the Hawking temperature $T_H$. This can be traditionally interpreted as the pair creation of two entangled particles, of which one goes towards the centre of the black hole, while the other one escapes from the black hole. In case of the cosmological horizon, the temperature $T=2T_H$ is physical. While the creation of the entangled pair is described by the Hawking temperature, the de Sitter spacetime allows for the another process, in which only single (non-entangled) particle inside the cosmological horizon is created. This process is characterized by the local temperature $T=2T_H$. Such single particle process takes place also outside the black hole horizon, but it is exponentially suppressed.