Quantum Calabi-Yau black holes and non-perturbative D0-brane effects

We compute the supersymmetric entropy of the most general BPS black hole in 4d \mathcal{N}=2 ???? = 2 supergravity coupled to n_V n V vector multiplets, obtained from Type IIA string theory compactified on a Calabi-Yau threefold at large volume, including the all-genera leading-order \alpha' α ′ -corrections. These can be equivalently seen as D0-brane quantum effects from a dual five-dimensional M-theory perspective. We find that these corrections generically lead to both perturbative and non-perturbative contributions to the black hole entropy. We argue that the exception occurs for certain specific configurations where the gauge background, seen through the lens of D0-brane probes, behaves as purely electric or purely magnetic, thereby accounting for the absence of such non-perturbative effects. To explore this further, we perform a semiclassical analysis of the (non-)BPS particle dynamics in the near-horizon geometry of the underlying black hole, which is described by a maximally supersymmetric AdS _2× \mathbf{S}^2 2 × ???? 2 solution. As a byproduct, this study provides additional insights into the non-perturbative stability of supersymmetric black hole geometries and suggests an interpretation in terms of complex saddles contributing to the worldline path integral.