Thursday, March 22, 2012

1203.4681 (Gabriela-Raluca Mocanu et al.)

Self-organized criticality in boson clouds around black holes    [PDF]

Gabriela-Raluca Mocanu, Daniel Grumiller
Boson clouds around black holes exhibit interesting physical phenomena through the Penrose process of superradiance, leading to black hole spin-down. Axionic clouds are of particular interest, since the axion Compton wavelength could be comparable to the Schwarzschild radius, leading to the formation of "gravitational atoms" with a black hole nucleus. These clouds collapse under certain conditions, leading to a "Bosenova". We model the dynamics of such unstable boson clouds by a simple cellular automaton and show that it exhibits self-organized criticality. Our results suggest that the evolution through the black hole Regge plane is due to self-organized criticality.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.4681

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