Phase transitions and critical behaviour for charged black holes

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Publication:4470737

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/20/16/319zbMATH Open1045.83041arXivgr-qc/0306054OpenAlexW3121593432MaRDI QIDQ4470737FDOQ4470737

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Publication date: 15 June 2004

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the thermodynamics of a four-dimensional charged black hole in a finite cavity in asymptotically flat and asymptotically de Sitter space. In each case, we find a Hawking-Page-like phase transition between a black hole and a thermal gas very much like the known transition in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. For a ``supercooled black hole--a thermodynamically unstable black hole below the critical temperature for the Hawking-Page phase transition--the phase diagram has a line of first-order phase transitions that terminates in a second order point. For the asymptotically flat case, we calculate the critical exponents at the second order phase transition and find that they exactly match the known results for a charged black hole in anti-de Sitter space. We find strong evidence for similar phase transitions for the de Sitter black hole as well. Thus many of the thermodynamic features of charged anti-de Sitter black holes do not really depend on asymptotically anti-de Sitter boundary conditions; the thermodynamics of charged black holes is surprisingly universal.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0306054






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