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Peng-Cheng Li

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arXiv2020

Science with the TianQin Observatory: Preliminary results on Galactic double white dwarf binaries

We explore the prospects of detecting of Galactic double white dwarf (DWD) binaries with the space-based gravitational wave (GW) observatory TianQin. In this work, we analyze both a sample of currently known DWDs and a realistic synthetic population of DWDs to assess the number of guaranteed detections and the full capacity of the mission. We find that TianQin can detect 12 out of $\sim100$ known DWDs; GW signals of these binaries can be modeled in detail ahead of the mission launch, and therefore they can be used as verification sources. Besides we estimate that TianQin has potential to detect as many as $10^4$ DWDs in the Milky Way. TianQin is expected to measure their orbital periods and amplitudes with accuracies of $\sim10^{-7}$ and $\sim0.2$, respectively, and to localize on the sky a large fraction (39%) of the detected population to better than 1 deg$^2$. We conclude that TianQin has the potential to significantly advance our knowledge on Galactic DWDs by increasing the sample up to 2 orders of magnitude, and will allow their multi-messenger studies in combination with electromagnetic telescopes. We also test the possibilities of different configurations of TianQin: (1) the same mission with a different orientation, (2) two perpendicular constellations combined into a network, and (3) the combination of the network with the ESA-led Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. We find that the network of detectors boosts the accuracy on the measurement of source parameters by 1-2 orders of magnitude, with the improvement on sky localization being the most significant.

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arXiv2020

The innermost stable circular orbit and shadow in the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Recently, a novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity was formulated and a spherically symmetric black hole solution in this theory was derived by D. Glavan and C. Lin \cite{Glavan:2019inb}. In this paper, we study the geodesic motions in the background of the spherically symmetric black hole, by focusing on the innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) for massive particle and photon sphere and shadow. Also, we find that a negative GB coupling constant is allowable in this theory, as in which case the singular behavior of the black hole can be hidden inside the event horizon. Moreover, we find that due to this extension a recently proposed universal bound on black hole size in \cite{Lu:2019zxb} can be broken.

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arXiv2020

Superradiance and stability of the novel 4D charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole

We investigated the superradiance and stability of the novel 4D charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole which is recently inspired by Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. We found that the positive Gauss-Bonnet coupling consant $α$ enhances the superradiance, while the negative $α$ suppresses it. The condition for superradiant instability is proved. We also worked out the quasinormal modes (QNMs) of the charged Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet black hole and found that the real part of all the QNMs live beyond the superradiance condition and the imaginary parts are all negative. Therefore this black hole is superradiant stable. When $α$ makes the black hole extremal, there are normal modes.

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arXiv2020

Shadow of a Spinning Black Hole in an Expanding Universe

We study the influence of the cosmic expansion on the size of the shadow of a spinning black hole observed by a comoving observer. We first consider that the expansion is driven by a cosmological constant only and build the connection between the Kerr-de Sitter metric and the FLRW metric. We clarify that the notion of a comoving observer is well defined in the spacetime of a spinning black hole only in the sense of being asymptotic. The angular size of the shadow for a comoving observer is calculated. Significantly we find that the angular size approaches a non-zero finite value for a distant comoving observer, while it vanishes for a distant static observer. Furthermore, by adopting the approximate method proposed in \cite{Bisnovatyi-Kogan:2018vxl} we extend the study to the general multi-component universe case. The results show that the difference between the horizontal and vertical angular size changes a lot, while their ratio, i.e. the oblateness, keeps unchanged when the supermassive spinning black hole is at a high redshift, due to the common amplification factor exerted by the cosmic expansion. In addition, when $a=0$, our results agree with the previous studies in \cite{Perlick:2018iye,Bisnovatyi-Kogan:2018vxl}.

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arXiv2020

Greybody factor and power spectra of the Hawking radiation in the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet de-Sitter gravity

We investigate Hawking radiation in the novel $4D$ Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity which is recently formulated by Glavan and Lin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 081301 (2020)]. We first find the constraints on $α$ and $Λ$ to retain a dS black hole in the spacetime. Both the greybody factor and the power spectra of the Hawking radiation of the massless scalar are studied for the full range of various parameters including the GB coupling constant $α$, the cosmological constant $Λ$ and the constant related to the scalar $ξ$ numerically. In particular, we find the greybody factor is larger for a negative $α$ than the case for $α\ge0$. While, the power spectra of the Hawking radiation is higher for a allowed negative $α$ than others with non-negative $α$. The reason is that the temperature of the black hole would be very high when $α<0$, even when $α$ approaches the lower bound, the temperature would be arbitrary high.

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arXiv2020

Photon Emission Near Myers-Perry Black Holes in the Large Dimension Limit

We study the null geodesics extending from the near-horizon region out to the far region in the background of the Schwarzschild and the singly-spinning Myers-Perry black holes in the large dimension limit. We find that in this limit the radial integrals of these geodesics can be obtained by using the method of matched asymptotic expansions. If the motion of the photon is confined to the equator plane, then all geodesic equations are solvable analytically. The study in this paper may provide a toy model to analyze the observables relevant to the electromagnetic phenomena occurring near the black holes.

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arXiv2019

The Fate of Instability of de Sitter Black Holes at Large $D$

We study non-linearly the gravitational instabilities of Reissner-Nordstrom-de Sitter and Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes by using the large $D$ expansion method. In both cases, the thresholds of the instability are found to be consistent with the linear analysis, and on the thresholds the evolutions of the black holes under perturbations settle down to stationary lumpy solutions. However, the solutions in unstable region are highly time-dependent, and resemble the fully localized black spots and black ring with $S^{D-2}$ and $S^1\times S^{D-3}$ topologies, respectively. Our study indicates the possible transition between the lumpy black holes and localized black holes in higher dimensions.

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arXiv2019

Hawking radiation for scalar fields by Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes

We study the greybody factor and power spectra of Hawking radiation for the minimally or nonminimally coupled scalar field with exact numerical method in spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black hole spacetime. The effects of scalar coupling constant, angular momentum number of scalar, spacetime dimension, cosmological constant and Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant on the Hawking radiation are studied in detail. Specifically, the Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant always increases the greybody factor in the entire energy regime. Different from the case of Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole, the effects of the scalar coupling constant on the greybody factor are not monotonic but relevant to the values of Gauss-Bonnet coupling constant. Moreover, both these two coupling constants always suppress the power spectra of Hawking radiation in the whole energy regime.

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arXiv2018

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Black Rings at Large $D$

We study the black ring solution in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) theory at large $D$. By using the $1/D$ expansion in the near horizon region we derive the effective equations for the slowly rotating black holes in the EGB theory. The effective equations describe the non-linear dynamics of various stationary solutions, including the EGB black ring, the slowly rotating EGB black hole and the slowly boosted EGB black string. By different embeddings we construct these stationary solutions explicitly. By performing the perturbation analysis of the effective equations, we obtain the quasinormal modes of the EGB black ring. We find that thin EGB black ring becomes unstable against non-axisymmetric perturbation.Furthermore, we numerically evolve the effective equations in a particular case to study the final state of the instability, and find that the thin black ring becomes the stable non-uniformblack ring at late time, which gives a relative strong evidence to support the conjecture given in [arXiv:1510.02200].

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arXiv2018

Greybody factors for Spherically Symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black hole

We study the greybody factors of the scalar fields in spherically symmetric Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-de Sitter black holes in higher dimensions. We derive the greybody factors analytically for both minimally and non-minimally coupled scalar fields. Moreover, we discuss the dependence of the greybody factor on various parameters including the angular momentum number, the non-minimally coupling constant, the spacetime dimension, the cosmological constant and the Gauss-Bonnet coefficient in detail. We find that the non-minimal coupling may suppress the Hawking radiation, while the Gauss-Bonnet coupling could enhance the radiation.

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arXiv2018

Holographic Turbulence in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Gravity at Large $D$

We study the holographic hydrodynamics in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) gravity in the framework of the large $D$ expansion. We find that the large $D$ EGB equations can be interpreted as the hydrodynamic equations describing the conformal fluid. These fluid equations are truncated at the second order of the derivative expansion, similar to the Einstein gravity at large $D$. From the analysis of the fluid flows, we find that the fluid equations can be taken as a variant of the compressible version of the non-relativistic Navier-Stokes equations. Particularly, in the limit of small Mach number, these equations could be cast into the form of the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with redefined Reynolds number and Mach number. By using numerical simulation, we find that the EGB holographic turbulence shares similar qualitative feature as the turbulence from the Einstein gravity, despite the presence of two extra terms in the equations of motion. We analyze the effect of the GB term on the holographic turbulence in detail.

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arXiv2017

Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Black Strings at Large $D$

We study the black string solutions in the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet(EGB) theory at large $D$. By using the $1/D$ expansion in the near horizon region we derive the effective equations that describe the dynamics of the EGB black strings. The uniform and non-uniform black strings are obtained as the static solutions of the effective equations. From the perturbation analysis of the effective equations, we find that thin EGB black strings suffer from the Gregory-Laflamme instablity and the GB term weakens the instability when the GB coefficient is small, however, when the GB coefficient is large the GB term enhances the instability. Furthermore, we numerically solve the effective equations to study the non-linear instability. It turns out that the thin black strings are unstable to developing inhomogeneities along their length, and at late times they asymptote to the stable non-uniform black strings. The behavior is qualitatively similar to the case in the Einstein gravity. Compared with the black string instability in the Einstein gravity at large D, when the GB coefficient is small the time needed to reach to final state increases, but when the GB coefficient is large the time to reach to final state decreases. Starting from the point of view in which the effective equations can be interpreted as the equations for the dynamical fluid, we evaluate the transport coefficients and find that the ratio of the shear viscosity and the entropy density agrees with that obtained previously in the membrane paradigm after taking the large $D$ limit.

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arXiv2017

Instability of Charged Gauss-Bonnet Black Hole in de Sitter Spacetime at Large $D$

We study the stabilities of (A)dS charged Gauss-Bonnet(GB) black holes in the large $D$ dimensions. After integrating the equation of motion with respect to the radial direction, we obtain the effective equations at large $D$ to describe the nonlinear dynamical deformations of the black hole. From the perturbation analysis of the effective equations, we get the analytic expressions of the frequencies for the quasinormal modes of scalar type. Furthermore we show that the charged GB black hole becomes unstable only if the cosmological constant is positive, otherwise the black hole is always stable. At the onset of instabilities there is a non-trivial static zero-mode perturbation, which suggests the existence of a new non-spherical symmetric solution branch of static dS charged GB black holes. We construct the non-spherical symmetric static solution of the large $D$ effective equations explicitly.

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arXiv2017

Static Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes at Large $D$

We study the static black holes in the large $D$ dimensions in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a cosmological constant, coupled to the Maxewell theory. After integrating the equation of motion with respect to the radial direction, we obtain the effective equations at large $D$ to describe the nonlinear dynamical deformations of the black holes. From the perturbation analysis on the effective equations, we get the analytic expressions of the frequencies for the quasinormal modes of charge and scalar-type perturbations. We show that for a positive Gauss-Bonnet term, the black hole could become unstable only if the cosmological constant is positive, otherwise the black hole is always stable. However, for a negative Gauss-Bonnet term, we find that the black hole could always be unstable. The instability of the black hole depends not only on the cosmological constant and the charge, but also significantly on the Gauss-Bonnet term. Moreover, at the onset of instability there is a non-trivial static zero-mode perturbation, which suggests the existence of a new non-spherically symmetric solution branch. We construct the non-spherical symmetric static solutions of the large $D$ effective equations explicitly.

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arXiv2017

Charged Black Rings at large D

We study the charged slowly rotating black holes in the Einstein-Maxwell theory in the large dimensions. By using the 1/D expansion in the near region of the black hole we obtain the effective equations for the charged slowly rotating black holes. The effective equations describe the charged black ring, the charged slowly rotating Myers-Perry black hole and the charged slowly boosted black string as stationary solutions. By embedding the solution of the effective equations into the flat spacetime background in the ring coordinate we obtain the charged black ring solution at large D analytically. We find that the charge lowers the angular momentum of the black ring due to the regular condition on the solution. By the perturbation analysis of the effective equations, we obtain the quasinormal modes of the charge perturbation and the gravitational perturbation analytically. Like the neutral case the charged thin black ring suffers from the Gregory-Laflamme-like instability under non-axisymmetric perturbations, but the charge helps weaken the instability. Besides, we find that the large D analysis always respect the cosmic censorship.

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arXiv2014

A new time-frequency method to reveal quantum dynamics of atomic hydrogen in intense laser pulses: Synchrosqueezing Transform

This study introduces a new adaptive time-frequency (TF) analysis technique, synchrosqueezing transform (SST), to explore the dynamics of a laser-driven hydrogen atom at an {\it ab initio} level, upon which we have demonstrated its versatility as a new viable venue for further exploring quantum dynamics. For a signal composed of oscillatory components which can be characterized by instantaneous frequency, the SST enables rendering the decomposed signal based on the phase information inherited in the linear TF representation with mathematical support. Compared with the classical type TF methods, the SST clearly depicts several intrinsic quantum dynamical processes such as selection rules, AC Stark effects, and high harmonic generation.

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