Saturons - VIRTUAL
APA
Dvali, G. (2024). Saturons - VIRTUAL. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/24020052
MLA
Dvali, Gia. Saturons - VIRTUAL. Perimeter Institute, Feb. 06, 2024, https://pirsa.org/24020052
BibTex
@misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:24020052, doi = {10.48660/24020052}, url = {https://pirsa.org/24020052}, author = {Dvali, Gia}, keywords = {Particle Physics}, language = {en}, title = {Saturons - VIRTUAL}, publisher = {Perimeter Institute}, year = {2024}, month = {feb}, note = {PIRSA:24020052 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}} }
“Saturons" are macroscopic objects that saturate the field theoretic upper bound on microstate degeneracy. Due to their maximal microstate entropy, from a quantum information perspective, saturons and black holes belong to the same universality class with common key properties. However, as opposed to black holes, saturons do not require gravity and can emerge via ordinary renormalizable interactions, such as QCD, in the form of soliton-like states. Due to this feature, saturons serve as laboratories for understanding certain properties of black holes. After reviewing the general properties of saturons, we discuss their implications for fundamental physics and cosmology. In particular, we explain how saturons can lead to a new form of phase transition.
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