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The enriched phase structure of black branes in canonical ensemble

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-05-28 v2

Abstract

It is found that a necessary completion of phase structure of D-dimensional charged black p-brane (p>0p > 0) in a cavity requires two additional thermodynamical phases, the so-called "bubble of nothing" and/or the extremal brane, in canonical ensemble. This finding resolves the puzzle about the missing phases which are needed for the underlying phase diagram when d~=Dp32\tilde d = D - p - 3 \leq 2 and gives a new (bubble) phase which can become globally stable when d~>2\tilde d > 2. An analog of Hawking-Page transition is also found among other new phase transitions, giving a complete phase structure in this setup.

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@article{arxiv.1105.6323,
  title  = {The enriched phase structure of black branes in canonical ensemble},
  author = {J. X. Lu and Shibaji Roy and Zhiguang Xiao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.6323},
  year   = {2015}
}

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18 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, the expanded version with new title and abstract, to appear in Nucl. Phys. B