Quantum Scattering Process and Information Transfer Out of a Black Hole

Abstract

We calculate the probability amplitude for tree-level elastic electron-muon scattering in Minkowski spacetime with carefully prepared initial and final wave packets. The obtained nonzero amplitude implies a nonvanishing probability for detecting a recoil electron outside the light-cone of the initial muon. Transposing this Minkowski-spacetime scattering result to the near-horizon region of a massive Schwarzschild black hole and referring to a previously proposed Gedankenexperiment, we conclude that, in principle, it is possible to have information transfer from inside the black-hole horizon to outside.