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It was shown recently that extended black hole thermodynamics, where the cosmological constant is a dynamical variable, giving rise to a pressure $p$ and its conjugate volume $V$, can be given a natural setting in the context of braneworld…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-04 Clifford V. Johnson , Roberto Nazario

With the recent discovery that many aspects of black hole thermodynamics can be effectively reduced to problems in three spacetime dimensions, it has become increasingly important to understand the ``statistical mechanics'' of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-28 S. Carlip

After a brief review of Goedel-type universes in string theory, we discuss some intriguing properties of black holes immersed in such backgrounds. Among these are the upper bound on the entropy that points towards a finite-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Dietmar Klemm , Luciano Vanzo

Inspired from the inflation brane world cosmology, we study the thermodynamics of a black hole solution in two dimensional dilaton gravity with an arctangent potential background. We first derive the two dimensional black hole geometry,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-30 A. Belhaj , M. Chabab , H. El Moumni , M. B. Sedra , A. Segui

In this paper, we study the heat engine where charged AdS black holes surrounded by dark energy is the working substance and the mechanical work is done via $PdV$ term in the first law of black hole thermodynamics in the extended phase…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-28 Hang Liu , Xin-He Meng

Within the framework of extended black hole thermodynamics, where the cosmological constant acts as the thermodynamic pressure and its conjugate as the thermodynamic volume, we analyze the phase structure and thermodynamic geometry of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-22 Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Juan F. Pedraza , Morteza Rafiee

We investigate the low-energy regime of BFSS quantum mechanics using its holographic dual. We identify three distinct thermodynamic phases (black holes) and analyze their thermodynamic properties extensively, including phase transitions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-14 Oscar J. C. Dias , Jorge E. Santos

The Carnot engine sets an upper limit to the efficiency of a practical heat engine. An arbitrary irreversible engine is sometimes believed to behave closely as the Curzon-Ahlborn engine. Efficiency of the latter is obtained commonly by…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-17 Kamal Bhattacharyya

Nuclear power plants are prominent examples of heat-to-work conversion systems, and optimizing their thermodynamic performance offers significant potential for enhancing energy efficiency. With a development history of less than a century,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-01 Fang-Ming Cui , Hui Dong

The thermodynamics of the Curzon-Ahlborn engine, which is a prototype of endoreversible engines, is elucidated. In particular, their criterion for adiabatic equilibration is revised. The so-called irreversibility of endoreversible engines…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 B. H. Lavenda

We tested the thermodynamic properties of charged BTZ-type black holes (BHs) in the framework of Bopp Podolsky electrodynamics, a higher derivative extension of Maxwells theory that preserves gauge invariance while introducing a massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Allan. R. P. Moreira , Abdelmalek Bouzenada , Guo-Hua Sun , Shi-Hai Dong

We explore the canonical thermodynamics of the non-rotating BTZ black hole within a finite cavity by incorporating quantum corrections using Barrow entropy. We derive analytic expressions for temperature, quasilocal energy, free energy, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-16 Prince A Ganai , Nadeem Ul Islam , Nazir A Ganaie

An action principle for spacetimes with the topology of an Euclidean black-hole is given. The gravitational field is described by the ordinary volume degrees of freedom plus additional surface fields at the horizon. The surface degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-12-30 Claudio Teitelboim

Under the assumption that a dynamical scalar field is responsible for the current acceleration of the Universe, we explore the possibility of probing its physics in black hole merger processes with gravitational wave interferometers.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-08 Johannes Noller , Luca Santoni , Enrico Trincherini , Leonardo G. Trombetta

The theory of general relativity is often considered under the framework of modified Einstein gravity to explain different phenomena under strong curvature. The strong curvature effect plays a main role near black holes, where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-02 Mriganka Dutta , Banibrata Mukhopadhyay

In this presentation, I review recent work with Mike Appels and David Kubiznak on thermodynamics of accelerating black holes. I start by reviewing the geometry of accelerating black holes, focussing on the conical deficit responsible for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ruth Gregory

The Carnot heat engine sets an upper bound on the efficiency of a heat engine. As an ideal, reversible engine, a single cycle must be performed in infinite time, and so the Carnot engine has zero power. However, there is nothing in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-11 Clifford V. Johnson

There are many exotic thermodynamic processes that are hard to study in nature. Here, we synthesize a structured environment to explore the extremes of thermodynamics. We present an engine running at extreme temperatures of above ten…

We review some recent results obtained for black holes using effective field theory methods applied to quantum gravity, in particular the unique effective action. Black holes are complex thermodynamical objects that not only have a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-08 Xavier Calmet , Folkert Kuipers