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SUBMITTER: Wang ZW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6065406 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20180730 1
Since the 1970s, it has been known that black-hole (and other) horizons are truly thermodynamic. More generally, surfaces which are not horizons have also been conjectured to behave thermodynamically. Initially, for surfaces microscopically expanded from a horizon to so-called stretched horizons, and more recently, for more general ordinary surfaces in the emergent gravity program. To test these conjectures we ask whether such surfaces satisfy an analogue to the first law of thermodynamics (as d ...[more]