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Bohr's Correspondence Principle and The Area Spectrum of Quantum Black Holes
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During the last twenty-five years evidence has been mounting that a black-hole surface area has a {\it discrete} spectrum. Moreover, it is widely believed that area eigenvalues are {\it uniformally} spaced. There is, however, no general agreement on the {\it spacing} of the levels. In this letter we use Bohr's correspondence principle to provide this missing link. We conclude that the area spacing of a black-hole is $4\hbar \ln 3$. This is the unique spacing consistent both with the area-entropy {\it thermodynamic} relation for black holes, with Boltzmann-Einstein formula in {\it statistical physics} and with {\it Bohr's correspondence principle}.
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