English

Generalized Ehrenfest's Equations and phase transition in Black Holes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-03-10 v1

Abstract

We generalize Ehrenfest's equations to systems having two work terms, i.e. systems with three degrees of freedom. For black holes with two work terms we obtain nine equations instead of two to be satisfied at the critical point of a second order phase transition. We finally generalize this method to a system with an arbitrary number of degrees of freedom and found there is N(N+1)22\frac{N(N+1)^{2}}{2} equations to be satisfied at the point of a second order phase transition where NN is number of work terms in the first law of thermodynamics.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1503.02433,
  title  = {Generalized Ehrenfest's Equations and phase transition in Black Holes},
  author = {Mohammad Bagher Jahani Poshteh and Behrouz Mirza and Fatemeh Oboudiat},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.02433},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages