Stress-energy tensor correlations across regular black holes horizons

TL;DR

This paper investigates the correlations between Hawking particles and their partners across the horizons of non-singular black holes, revealing that these correlations remain finite and may propagate instead of being lost in a singularity.

Contribution

It introduces a calculation of energy density correlations in non-singular black holes, showing that partner-particle correlations can persist and propagate in these models.

Findings

Correlations remain finite near non-singular horizons

Partner-particle correlations can propagate through non-singular regions

Contrast with singular black holes where correlations are absent or lost

Abstract

Hawking radiation can be regarded as a spontaneous and continuous creation of virtual particle-antiparticle pairs outside the event horizon of a black hole where strong tidal forces prevent the annihilation: the particle escapes to infinity contributing to the Hawking flux, while its corresponding antiparticle partner enters the event horizon and ultimately reaches the singularity. The aim of this paper is to investigate the energy density correlations between the Hawking particles and their partners across the event horizon of two models of non-singular black holes by calculating the two-point correlation function of the density operator of a massless scalar field. This analysis is motivated by the fact that in acoustic black holes particle-partner correlations are signalled by the presence of a peak in the equal time density-density correlator. Performing the calculation in a Schwarzschild black hole it was shown in [1] that the peak does not appear, mainly because of the singularity. It is then interesting to consider what happens when the singularity is not present. In the Hayward and Simpson-Visser non-singular black holes we show that the density-density correlator remains finite when the partner particle approaches the hypersurface that replaces the singularity, opening the possibility that partner-particle correlations can propagate towards other regions of spacetime instead of being lost in a singularity.