Black hole thermodynamics: classical and quantum - NTMF091
Title: Black hole thermodynamics: classical and quantum
Guaranteed by: Institute of Theoretical Physics (32-UTF)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2024 to 2024
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: English, Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Additional information: http://utf.mff.cuni.cz/vyuka/NTMF091
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. Oldřich Semerák, DSc.
Ana Alonso Serrano, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): Ana Alonso Serrano, Ph.D.
prof. Mgr. David Kubizňák, Ph.D.
Mgr. Marek Liška, Ph.D.
doc. RNDr. Oldřich Semerák, DSc.
Comes under: Doporučené přednášky 1/2
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Annotation -
The course is covering a review of classical black holes and basic quantum aspects of black holes. It also indicates some open problems in black hole physics. Knowledge of black holes on the level of NTMF037 course is necessary (though briefly reviewed at the beginning). Completing first the NTMF065 course is recommended (though not strictly required).
Last update: Houfek Karel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (13.05.2018)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Semerák Oldřich, doc. RNDr., DSc. (16.06.2019)
Literature -

E. Poisson: A Relativist's Toolkit: The Mathematics of Black-Hole Mechanics, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge 2004.

Last update: Podolský Jiří, prof. RNDr., CSc., DSc. (29.04.2019)
Requirements to the exam -

Oral exam, with requirements corresponding to the syllabus (in details to what has actually been lectured during the course).

Last update: Semerák Oldřich, doc. RNDr., DSc. (16.06.2019)
Syllabus -
  • Review of black holes
  • Thermodynamics of black holes
  • Semiclassical black holes
  • Hawking radiation
  • Black-hole analogs
  • Entropy and information
  • Black holes and entropy
  • Information problems with black holes
  • Some notions of quantum gravity
  • Quantum black holes

Last update: Houfek Karel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (13.05.2018)