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Black hole phase transitions via Bragg-Williams

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-20 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We argue that a convenient way to analyze instabilities of black holes in AdS space is via Bragg-Williams construction of a free energy function. Starting with a pedagogical review of this construction in condensed matter systems and also its implementation to Hawking-Page transition, we study instabilities associated with hairy black holes and also with the RR-charged black holes. For the hairy black holes, an analysis of thermal quench is presented.

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@article{arxiv.1012.3256,
  title  = {Black hole phase transitions via Bragg-Williams},
  author = {Souvik Banerjee and Sayan K. Chakrabarti and Sudipta Mukherji and Binata Panda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.3256},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 8 figures, a discussion on thermal quench and a new figure have been added, typos corrected

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