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We demonstrate that adding a conical deficit to a black hole holographic heat engine increases its efficiency; in contrast, allowing a black hole to accelerate {\it decreases} efficiency if the same average conical deficit is maintained.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Wasif Ahmed , Hong Zhe Chen , Elliott Gesteau , Ruth Gregory , Andrew Scoins

We undertake a first-principles analysis of the thermodynamics of a small body near a black hole horizon. In particular, we study the paradigmatic system of a quantum ideal gas in a small box hovering over the Schwarzschild horizon. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-17 Eirini Sourtzinou , Charis Anastopoulos

To explain black hole thermodynamics in quantum gravity, one must introduce constraints to ensure that a black hole is actually present. I show that for a large class of black holes, such ``horizon constraints'' allow the use of conformal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

We investigate dyonic black holes in a weak field expansion of non-linear electrodynamics. The breadth of parameter space permits a rich thermodynamic structure, additional turning points and intricate phase phenomena. Energy conditions are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 Lewis Croney , Ruth Gregory , Carlos J. Ramírez-Valdez

BTZ black holes are excellent laboratories for studying black hole thermodynamics which is a bridge between classical general relativity and quantum nature of gravitation. In addition, three-dimensional gravity could have equipped us for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 S. H. Hendi , S. Panahiyan , S. Upadhyay , B. Eslam Panah

We address the problem of describing the thermodynamics and holography of three-dimensional accelerating black holes. By embedding the solutions in the Chern-Simons formalism, we identify two distinct masses, each with its associated first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-10 Jia Tian , Tengzhou Lai

Despite its idealizations, thermodynamics has proven its power as a predictive theory for practical applications. In particular, the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency provides a benchmark for any real engine operating at maximal power. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-30 Zackary Smith , P. S. Pal , Sebastian Deffner

We investigate an Otto thermodynamic cycle with a qubit Unruh-DeWitt detector as the working medium, coupled to a massless, conformally coupled scalar quantum field in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum in a (2+1)-dimensional BTZ black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Dimitris Moustos , Obinna Abah

Using a reasonable choice in normalizing the timelike Killing vector, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of charged accelerating Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes. We find that the expression of the thermodynamic mass in the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-22 Jialin Zhang , Yanjun Li , Hongwei Yu

In this paper we study a new class of holographic heat engines via charged AdS black hole solutions of Einstein gravity coupled with logarithmic nonlinear $U(1)$ gauge theory. So, Logarithmic $U(1)$ AdS black holes with a horizon of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-04 Soodeh Zarepour

Inspired by applications of gravity's rainbow in UV completion of general relativity, we investigate charged topological black holes in gravity's rainbow and show that depending on the values of different parameters, these solutions may…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-10-31 B. Eslam Panah

We apply a finite-time geometric optimization framework to investigate thermal fluctuations and (non)equilibrium optimal processes in the $(2+1)$-dimensional BTZ black hole. Employing Hessian thermodynamic information metrics, we construct…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-25 M. Radomirov , R. C. Rashkov , G. S. Stoilov , T. Vetsov

We propose to unify two a priori distinct aspects of black hole physics : their thermodynamics, and their effective dynamics when they are "skeletonized" as point particles (a useful procedure when tackling, for example, their motion in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-20 Marcela Cárdenas , Félix-Louis Julié , Nathalie Deruelle

Finite-time thermodynamics provides the means to revisit ideal thermodynamic equilibrium processes in the light of reality and investigate the energetic "price of haste", i.e. the consequences of carrying out a process in finite time, when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-05 Christine Gruber

We explore the thermodynamics and geothermodynamics of black holes with Barrow entropy in a brane-world scenario, where the horizon geometry of the black hole is regarded as a fractal structure. Our analysis reveals the behavior of heat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Usman Zafar , Abdul Jawad , Kazuharu Bamba , Mohammad Ali S. Afshar , Mohammad Reza Alipour , Saeed Noori Gashti , Jafar Sadeghi

We review the classical thermodynamics and the greybody factors of general (rotating) non-extreme black holes and discuss universal features of their near-horizon geometry. We motivate a microscopic interpretation of general black holes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Mirjam Cvetic , Finn Larsen

We study new classes three dimensional black hole solutions of Einstein equations written in two holonomic and one anholonomic variables with respect to anholonomic frames Thermodynamic properties of such (2+1)-black holes with generic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergiu I. Vacaru , Panayiotis Stavrinos , Denis Gontsa

We present the results of initiating a benchmarking scheme that allows for cross-comparison of the efficiencies of black holes used as working substances in heat engines. We use a circular cycle in the p-V plane as the benchmark engine. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-07 Avik Chakraborty , Clifford V. Johnson

We investigate the heat properties of charged AdS black holes in the Gauss-Bonnet gravity coupled with nonlinear electrodynamics. We consider the thermodynamics of black holes from the perspective of heat capacity and show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-11 Yang Guo , Yan-Gang Miao

Motivated by low energy effective action of string theory and large applications of BTZ black holes, we will consider minimal coupling between dilaton and nonlinear electromagnetic fields in three dimensions. The main goal is studying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-13 S. H. Hendi , B. Eslam Panah , S. Panahiyan , A. Sheykhi