Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance, black holes and perpetuum mobile of the 2nd kind
Abstract
We study the effect of spontaneous breaking of Lorentz invariance on black
hole thermodynamics. We consider a scenario where Lorentz symmetry breaking
manifests itself by the difference of maximal velocities attainable by
particles of different species in a preferred reference frame. The Lorentz
breaking sector is represented by the ghost condensate. We find that the
notions of black hole entropy and temperature loose their universal meaning. In
particular, the standard derivation of the Hawking radiation yields that a
black hole does emit thermal radiation in any given particle species, but with
temperature depending on the maximal attainable velocity of this species. We
demonstrate that this property implies violation of the second law of
thermodynamics, and hence, allows construction of a perpetuum mobile of the 2nd
kind. We discuss possible interpretation of these results.