Quantum Horizon and Quantum Membrane Paradigm from Black Hole Quantum Mechanics

Abstract

We develop a microscopic quantum membrane paradigm from the matrix quantum mechanics of black holes [1]. It was proposed that a quantum black hole is described by a fuzzy sphere together with a half-filled Fermi sea of horizon partons. We show that the topology of the fuzzy sphere induces a Berry monopole, providing a microscopic origin for the monopole appearing in the tunneling description of the decay of quantum black hole. Because the partons couple to the fuzzy sphere as fundamental degrees of freedom, they are sensitive to this monopole and form Lowest-Landau-Level (LLL) states rather than ordinary propagating two-dimensional fermions. Their guiding-center dynamics generates Ohmic, Hall, and polarization currents on the horizon. To couple these currents to an external electromagnetic field, we introduce a two-block matrix configuration comprising black-hole, environmental, and bifundamental link sectors. Off-diagonal link modes become tachyonic near the fuzzy sphere and condense, dynamically locking the horizon gauge field to the boundary value of the external Maxwell field. The parton current thereby becomes a physical boundary source for the exterior field. Our construction replaces the fictitious membrane of the classical paradigm with a dynamical quantum membrane populated by microscopic LLL degrees of freedom. The resulting boundary condition generalizes the classical ingoing membrane condition and yields explicit quantum, frequency-dependent, and helicity-dependent corrections, offering a possible probe of the microscopic quantum structure of the horizon.