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Black Holes Physics Advances in High Energy Physics Black Holes Physics Guest Editors: Xiaoxiong Zeng, Christian Corda, and Deyou Chen Black Holes Physics Advances in High Energy Physics Black Holes Physics Guest Editors: Xiaoxiong Zeng, Christian Corda, and Deyou Chen Copyright © 2014 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. This is a special issue published in “Advances in High Energy Physics.” All articles are open access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Editorial Board Luis A. Anchordoqui, USA Maria Giller, Poland Reinhard Schlickeiser, Germany Marco Battaglia, USA Xiaochun He, USA Frederik G. Scholtz, South Africa Botio Betev, Switzerland Hong-Jian He, China Sally Seidel, USA Rong-Gen Cai, China Ian Jack, UK George Siopsis, USA Duncan L. Carlsmith, USA Filipe R. Joaquim, Portugal Terry Sloan, UK Kingman Cheung, Taiwan Kyung Joo, Republic of Korea Luca Stanco, Italy Ashot Chilingarian, Armenia Michal Kreps, UK EliasC.Vagenas,Kuwait Sridhara Dasu, USA Ming Liu, USA Nikos Varelas, USA Shi-Hai Dong, Mexico Piero Nicolini, Germany K. S. Viswanathan, Canada Edmond C. Dukes, USA Seog H. Oh, USA Yau W. Wah, USA Amir H. Fatollahi, Iran Stephen Pate, USA Moran Wang, China Frank Filthaut, The Netherlands Anastasios Petkou, Greece Gongnan Xie, China Chao-Qiang Geng, Taiwan Alexey A. Petrov, USA Contents Black Holes Physics, Xiaoxiong Zeng, Christian Corda, and Deyou Chen Volume 2014, Article ID 453586, 2 pages State-Space Geometry, Statistical Fluctuations, and Black Holes in String Theory, Stefano Bellucci and Bhupendra Nath Tiwari Volume 2014, Article ID 589031, 17 pages Quantum Tunnelling for Hawking Radiation from Both Static and Dynamic Black Holes, Subenoy Chakraborty and Subhajit Saha Volume 2014, Article ID 168487, 9 pages Analyzing Black Hole Super-Radiance Emission of Particles/Energy from a Black Hole as a Gedankenexperiment to Get Bounds on the Mass of a Graviton,A.Beckwith Volume 2014, Article ID 230713, 7 pages Magnetic String with a Nonlinear (1) Source, S. H. Hendi Volume 2014, Article ID 697914, 10 pages HolographicBrownianMotioninThree-DimensionalGodel¨ Black Hole, J. Sadeghi, F. Pourasadollah, and H. Vaez Volume2014,ArticleID762151,9pages Holographic Screens in Ultraviolet Self-Complete Quantum Gravity, Piero Nicolini and Euro Spallucci Volume 2014, Article ID 805684, 9 pages Black Holes and Quantum Mechanics,B.G.Sidharth Volume 2014, Article ID 606439, 4 pages Particle Collisions in the Lower Dimensional Rotating Black Hole Space-Time with the Cosmological Constant,JieYang,Yun-LiangLi,YangLi,Shao-WenWei,andYu-XiaoLiu Volume 2014, Article ID 204016, 7 pages Entropy Spectrum of a KS Black Hole in IR Modified Horava-Lifshitzˇ Gravity,ShiweiZhou, Ge-Rui Chen, and Yong-Chang Huang Volume2014,ArticleID396453,6pages The Critical Phenomena and Thermodynamics of the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter Black, Hole Ren Zhao, Mengsen Ma, Huihua Zhao, and Lichun Zhang Volume2014,ArticleID124854,6pages ResearchingonHawkingEffectinaKerrSpaceTimeviaOpenQuantumSystemApproach, Xian-Ming Liu and Wen-Biao Liu Volume 2014, Article ID 794626, 8 pages The Geometry of Black Hole Singularities,OvidiuCristinelStoica Volume2014,ArticleID907518,14pages Intermediate Mass Black Holes: Their Motion and Associated Energetics, C. Sivaram and Kenath Arun Volume 2014, Article ID 924848, 8 pages Electrostatics in the Surroundings of a Topologically Charged Black Hole in the Brane, Alexis Larranaga,˜ Natalia Herrera, and Sara Ramirez Volume 2014, Article ID 146094, 6 pages Energy Loss of a Heavy Particle Near 3D Rotating Hairy Black Hole, Jalil Naji and Hassan Saadat Volume 2014, Article ID 720713, 5 pages Hawking Radiation-Quasi-Normal Modes Correspondence and Effective States for Nonextremal Reissner-Nordstrom¨ Black Holes,C.Corda,S.H.Hendi,R.Katebi,andN.O.Schmidt Volume 2014, Article ID 527874, 9 pages A Little Quantum Help for Cosmic Censorship and a Step Beyond All That, Nikolaos Pappas Volume 2013, Article ID 236974, 4 pages Hindawi Publishing Corporation Advances in High Energy Physics Volume 2014, Article ID 453586, 2 pages http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/453586 Editorial Black Holes Physics Xiaoxiong Zeng,1 Christian Corda,2,3,4 and Deyou Chen5 1 School of Science, Chongqing Jiaotong University, Nanan 400074, China 2 Dipartimento di Fisica e Chimica, Istituto Universitario di Ricerca Scientifica “Santa Rita,”Centro di Scienze Naturali, ViadiGalceti,74,59100Prato,Italy 3 Institute for Theoretical Physics and Advanced MathematicsM)Einstein-Galilei,ViaSantaGonda14,59100Prato,Italy (IF 4 International Institute for Applicable Mathematics & Information Sciences (IIAMIS), B.M. Birla Science Centre, Adarsh Nagar, Hyderabad 500 463, India 5 Institute of Theoretical Physics, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan 637009, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xiaoxiong Zeng; [email protected] Received 15 May 2014; Accepted 15 May 2014; Published 28 May 2014 Copyright © 2014 Xiaoxiong Zeng et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3. Black hole (BH) is perhaps the most fascinating object in The paper “Intermediate mass black holes: their motion the research fields of astrophysics and gravitational physics. and associated energetics,” by C. Sivaram and A. Kenath, This mysterious object is predicted by the general theory of is devoted to exploring the astrophysical signatures and relativity (GTR), but such a classical theory cannot explain all evidences for the intermediate mass BHs. Especially authors its properties. It is believed that only a more general, definitive describe the specific features of their motion and energetics, theory of quantum gravity, which should unify GTR with related with the Bondi accretion. quantum mechanics, should clarify all the mysteries of BH The paper “Energy Loss of a heavy particle near 3d rotating physics, starting from the unsolved problem of the singularity hairy black hole,” by J. Naji and H. Saadat, considers rotating in the BH’s core to arrive to the BH information puzzle and BH in 3 dimensions with a scalar charge and discusses energy to the last stages of the BH evaporation, where very high loss of heavy particle moving near the BH horizon. energies are involved. In fact, it is general conviction that The paper “Holographic screens in ultraviolet self-complete black holes result in highly excited states representing both quantum gravity,” by P. Nicolini and E. Spallucci, investigates the “hydrogen atom” and the “quasi-thermal emission” in the idea of a short distance fundamental scale below which quantum gravity. On this issue we recall that an exciting con- it is not possible to probe and analyzes the geometry and sequence of TeV-scale quantum gravity could be the potential thermodynamics of a holographic screen in the framework production of mini-BHs in high-energy experiments, like the of the ultraviolet self-complete quantum gravity. LHC and beyond. The paper “Black holes and quantum mechanics,”byB.G. This special issue on BH physics consists of 17 interesting Sidharth, reconsiders BHs in the context of general relativity and well written papers. critically reviewing all problems relating these phenomena. The paper “Alittlequantumhelpforcosmiccensorshipand The paper “Magnetic string with a nonlinear U(1) source,” astepbeyondallthat”, by N. Pappas, discusses the weak and by Seyed H. Hendi, deals with the study of magnetic string strong versions of the cosmic censorship conjecture and also solutions in Einstein gravity in the presence of nonlinear deals with the well-known problem of naked singularities. electrodynamics. Also the effects of these nonlinear fields The paper “On the critical phenomena and Thermody- as well as other properties of the solutions are investigated, namics of the Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter black hole,”byR. precisely. Zhao et al., deals with the effective thermodynamic quantities The paper “ResearchingonHawkingeffectinaKerrspace in Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter BH by also discussing its time via open quantum system approach,” by X.-M. Liu and thermodynamic stability. W.-B.Liu,investigatestheHawkingeffectinaKerrspacetime 2 Advances in High Energy Physics in the framework of open quantum systems, showing that the correspondence between Hawking radiation and BH Hawking effect of the Kerr space time can also be understood quasi-normal modes and defines the concept of “effective as the manifestation of thermalization phenomena via open state” for the non-extremal Reissner-Nordstrom black holes. quantum system approach. The work is the extension of earlier works of the same The paper “Holograghic Brownian motion in three dimen- research group and contributes to the understanding of the sional Godel¨ black hole,” by J. Sadeghi et al., uses the AdS/CFT quantum properties of BHs. correspondence and Godel¨ BH background to study the dynamics of heavy quark under a rotating plasma. Xiaoxiong Zeng The paper “EntropyspectrumofaKSblackholeinIR Christian Corda modified Hovrava-Lifshitz gravity,”byS.Zhouetal.,discusses Deyou Chen theentropyspectrumandareaspectrumofaKSBHbased on the proposal of adiabatic invariant quantity. It is found that that the entropy spectrum is discrete and equidistant spaced and
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