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We investigate the spontaneous scalarization of generic, static, and spherically symmetric regular black holes supported by nonlinear electrodynamics. Starting from an arbitrary seed metric, we employ the P-dual formalism to reconstruct the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-17 Ernesto Contreras , Mikaela Carrasco-Hidalgo , Pedro Bargueño , Arthur G. Suvorov

Following a program on black hole nonmodal linear stability initiated in Phys.\ Rev.\ Lett.\ {\bf 112} (2014) 191101, we study odd linear perturbations of the Einstein-Maxwell equations around a Reissner-Nordstr\"om (A)dS black hole. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-05 Julián M. Fernández Tío , Gustavo Dotti

Although asymptotically flat black holes generically lack thermodynamic phase transitions, we show that curvature-induced scalarization of electrically charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell- Scalar-Gauss-Bonnet theory provides a natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-30 Cristián Erices , Stella Kiorpelidi

The Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory with a quartic coupling function features three branches of fundamental black hole (BH) solutions, labeled as cold, hot, and bald black holes. The static bald black holes (the Reissner-Nordstr\"om…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-25 Wei Xiong , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng-Cheng Li

In this paper, we discuss the spontaneous scalarization of Hayward black holes in Einstein-nonlinear electromagnetic-scalar gravity. Taking into account the tachyonic instability, we obtain scalarized charged black holes (SCBHs) with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-22 Lan-Lan Cai , Meng-Yun Lai , De-Cheng Zou , Lina Zhang , Hyat Huang

We investigate scalarized black holes in the Einstein-minimally coupled scalar theory with a negative potential $V(\phi)=-\alpha^2\phi^6$. The tachyonic instability is absent from analyzing the linearized scalar equation, which could not…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Xiao Yan Chew , Yun Soo Myung

We investigated the problem of the dynamical collapse of a self-gravitating complex charged scalar field in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a phantom copuling for the adequate fields in the system under consideration. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-11 Anna Nakonieczna , Marek Rogatko , Rafal Moderski

Charge-dependent scalarization of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) black hole is carried out in the EEH-scalar theory by introducing an exponential scalar coupling with $\alpha$ coupling constant to the Maxwell and nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 Lina Zhang , Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou , Chao-Ming Zhang

We identify a class of scalar-tensor theories with coupling between the scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant that exhibit spontaneous scalarization for both black holes and compact stars. In particular, these theories formally admit all of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Hector O. Silva , Jeremy Sakstein , Leonardo Gualtieri , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Emanuele Berti

Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models allow for different classes of black hole solutions, depending on the non-minimal coupling function $f(\phi)$ employed, between the scalar field and the Maxwell invariant. Here, we address the linear mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Jose Luis Blázquez-Salcedo , Carlos A. R. Herdeiro , Sarah Kahlen , Jutta Kunz , Alexandre M. Pombo , Eugen Radu

It is interesting to note that most black holes are born very slowly rotating. We investigate scalarization of slowly rotating black holes in the Einstein-scalar-Chern-Simons (EsCS) theory. In the slow rotation approximation, the CS term…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-22 Yun Soo Myung , De-Cheng Zou

In the present letter we show the existence of a fully nonlinear dynamical mechanism for the formation of scalarized black holes which is different from the spontaneous scalarization. We consider a class of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-05 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We study spontaneous scalarization of electrically charged extremal black holes in $D\geq 4$ spacetime dimensions. Such a phenomenon is caused by the symmetry breaking due to quartic interactions of the scalar -- Higgs potential and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-08-10 Alessio Marrani , Olivera Miskovic , Paula Quezada

We study black holes in a modified gravity scenario involving a scalar field quadratically coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant. The scalar is assumed to be in a spontaneously broken phase at spatial infinity due to a bare Higgs-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Eugeny Babichev , William T. Emond , Sabir Ramazanov

We show non-linear stability and instability results in spherical symmetry for the interior of a charged black hole -approaching a sub-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om background fast enough at infinity- in presence of a massive and charged…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-14 Maxime Van de Moortel

We study spontaneous scalarization of a scalar field in the magnetized Reissner--Nordstr\"om spacetime induced by parity-violating and parity-preserving interactions, represented by couplings to the electromagnetic Chern--Simons,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-16 Hao-Jie Lin , Tao Zhu , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Recently, by considering nontrivial couplings between scalar fields and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant, the Schwarzschild black hole may allow regular scalar hairy configurations. The numerical studies of this spontaneous scalarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-10 Shun Jiang

In the present paper, we construct spontaneously scalarized rotating black hole solutions in dynamical Chern-Simons (dCS) gravity by following the scalar field evolution in the decoupling limit. For the range of parameters where the Kerr…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-14 Daniela D. Doneva , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

We perform the stability analysis for the scalarized charged black holes obtained from Einstein-Maxwell-conformally coupled scalar (EMCS) theory by employing the radial perturbations. The targeting black holes include a single branch of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-16 De-Cheng Zou , Yun Soo Myung

In the context of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory with a nonminimal coupling between the electromagnetic and scalar field, we study linear (non)radial perturbations and nonlinear radial dynamics of spherically symmetric black holes. In a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-14 Marco Melis , Fabrizio Corelli , Robin Croft , Paolo Pani