Browsing Science (Faculty of) by Subject "Black Holes"
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Adventures in Holography
(University of Waterloo, 2014-07-11)In this thesis, inspired by the holographic theories, we study a variety of interesting problems in gravity, condensed matter and cosmology. First, we explore the entanglement entropy of a general region in a theory of ... -
Exact Solutions and Black Hole Stability in Higher Dimensional Supergravity Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2012-06-20)This thesis examines exact solutions to gauged and ungauged supergravity theories in space-time dimensions D⩾5 as well as various instabilities of such solutions. I begin by using two solution generating techniques for ... -
Explorations of Black Hole Thermodynamics in de Sitter Spacetime
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-23)In this thesis I map out two approaches that are foundational to studying black hole thermodynamics in de Sitter spacetime. The first is to understand the "thermodynamic volume" of cosmological horizons in isolation. ... -
Horizon Thermodynamics from Einstein's Equation of State
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)The striking resemblance between geometric theories of gravity and thermodynamics suggests a more fundamental relationship between the two seemingly distinct theories. It has been postulated that the radial Einstein ... -
Studying Black Holes in Superposition Using Unruh-DeWitt Particle Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-27)In quantum gravity, we expect black holes to exist in quantum superposition. However, the measurable effects of black hole superpositions have not been studied widely. In this thesis, we study superpositions of different ...