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Area-information trade-offs in acceleration radiation from atoms falling into black holes

Yusef Maleki1, Gustavo Valdivia-Mera2,3, Carlos R. Ordóñez2, Horacio E. Camblong4, and Marlan O. Scully1,5

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 065017 – Published 16 September, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/2sm6-2gxr

Abstract

We develop a geometric theory of information processing in the horizon-brightened acceleration radiation (HBAR) channel, in which the radiative horizon-area change provides an entropy budget for the information carried by the radiation field. Building on the quantum-optical description of atom-field interactions near the horizon and the resulting HBAR thermodynamic correspondence, we derive area-cost laws in the near-steady, thermally saturated regime. The accessible classical information and the mutual information generated between the radiation field and its environment are bounded by the associated radiative horizon-area budget. Reliability is incorporated through Fano’s inequality, which translates a prescribed decoding error probability into an area requirement. We further derive Fisher-information speed limits that constrain the statistical evolution of the radiation field and place a lower bound on the duration required for correlation generation. Together, these results establish a bits-per-area principle linking black-hole thermodynamics, information geometry, and quantum information in the HBAR framework.

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Phys. Rev. D 114, 065017– Published 16 September, 2026
  • Received 30 April 2026
  • Accepted 20 July 2026
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