Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2086
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2086-y

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Revisit emission spectrum and entropy quantum of the Reissner–Nordström black hole

College of Physics and Electronic Information, China West Normal University, Nanchong, Sichuan, 637002, People’s Republic of China

^* e-mail: qqjiangphys@yeah.net

Received: 16 December 2011
Published online: 25 July 2012

Abstract

Banerjee and Majhi’s recent work shows that black hole’s emission spectrum could be fully reproduced in the tunneling picture, where, as an intriguing technique, the Kruskal extension was introduced to connect the left and right modes inside and outside the horizon. Some attempt, as an extension, was focused on producing the Hawking emission spectrum of the (charged) Reissner–Nordström black hole in the Banerjee–Majhi treatment. Unfortunately, the Kruskal extension in their observation was so badly defined that the ingoing mode was classically forbidden traveling towards the center of black hole, but could quantum tunnel across the horizon with the probability . This tunneling picture is unphysical. With this point as a central motivation, in this paper we first introduce such a suitable Kruskal extension for the (charged) Reissner–Nordström black hole that a perfect tunneling picture can be provided during the charged particle’s emission. Then, under the new Kruskal extension, we revisit the Hawking emission spectrum and entropy spectroscopy as tunneling from the charged black hole. The result shows that the tunneling method is so universally robust that the Hawking blackbody emission spectrum from a charged black hole can be well reproduced in the tunneling mechanism, and its induced entropy quantum is a much better approximation for the forthcoming quantum gravity theory.