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Scalar-tensor theories with a scalar field coupled to the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can evade no-hair theorems and allow for non-trivial scalar profiles around black holes. This coupling is characterized by a length scale $\lambda$, which, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-24 Clemente Smarra , Lodovico Capuano , Adrien Kuntz

Spontaneous scalarization is a gravitational phenomenon in which deviations from general relativity arise once a certain threshold in curvature is exceeded, while being entirely absent below that threshold. For black holes, scalarization is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-08 Georgios Antoniou , Antoine Lehébel , Giulia Ventagli , Thomas P. Sotiriou

It is well-known that parity symmetry is broken in the weak interaction but conserved for Einstein's general relativity and Maxwell's electromagnetic theory. Nevertheless, parity symmetry could also be violated in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Hao-Jie Lin , Tao Zhu , Shao-Jun Zhang , Anzhong Wang

It has recently been shown that nontrivial couplings between a scalar and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant can give rise to black hole spontaneous scalarization. Theories that exhibit this phenomenon are among the leading candidates for testing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Caio F. B. Macedo , Jeremy Sakstein , Emanuele Berti , Leonardo Gualtieri , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou

We consider f(R) gravity theories in the presence of a scalar field minimally coupled to gravity with a self-interacting potential. When the scalar field backreacts to the metric we find at large distances scalarized Schwarzschild-AdS and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-15 Zi-Yu Tang , Bin Wang , Thanasis Karakasis , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos

The phenomenon of spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a lot of attention. In this work, we study the dynamical process of the spontaneous scalarization of charged black hole in asymptotically anti-de Sitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Wen-Kun Luo , Cheng-Yong Zhang , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Bin Wang

Th spontaneous scalarization of the Einstein-Euler-Heisenberg (EEH) black hole is performed in the EEH-scalar theory by introducing an exponential scalar coupling (with $\alpha$ coupling constant) to the Maxwell term.Here, the EEH black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Lina Zhang , De-Cheng Zou , Yun Soo Myung

Recently, spontaneous scalarization of charged black holes has attracted a great deal of attention and motivated several studies of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar models. These studies have, however, only considered a massless and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-09 Pedro G. S. Fernandes

We study scalar fields in a black hole background and show that, when the scalar is suitably coupled to curvature, rapid rotation can induce a tachyonic instability. This instability, which is the hallmark of spontaneous scalarization in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-07 Alexandru Dima , Enrico Barausse , Nicola Franchini , Thomas P. Sotiriou

Although general relativity passes all precision tests to date, there are several reasons to go beyond the current model of gravitation and search for new fundamental physics. This means looking for new, so far undetected, fields. Scalars…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-03 Giulia Ventagli

The Effective Field Theory (EFT) of perturbations on an arbitrary background geometry with a timelike scalar profile was recently constructed in the context of scalar-tensor theories. In this paper, we use this EFT to study quasinormal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Shinji Mukohyama , Kazufumi Takahashi , Keitaro Tomikawa , Vicharit Yingcharoenrat

We study a gravity theory where a scalar field with potential, beyond its minimal coupling, is also coupled through a non-minimal derivative coupling with the torsion scalar which is the teleparallel equivalent of Einstein gravity. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-14 Georgios Kofinas

It has been shown recently that the charged black hole can be scalarized if Maxwell field minimally couples with a complex scalar which has nonnegative nonlinear potential. We firstly prove that such scalarization cannot be a result of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Zhan-Feng Mai , Run-Qiu Yang

We construct new black holes using the curvature-induced scalarization mechanism in Einstein gravity coupled to a massless phantom scalar. We find that the general wormhole solutions with independent scalar charge become descalarized so…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-26 Ze Li , Hai-Shan Liu , H. Lu

The scalarization is a very interesting phenomena allowing to endow a compact object with scalar hair while leaving all the predictions in the weak field limit unaltered. In Gauss-Bonnet gravity the source of the scalar field can be the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-18 Daniela D. Doneva , Lucas G. Collodel , Christian J. Krüger , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev

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

Particular couplings between a scalar field and the Gauss-Bonnet invariant lead to spontaneous scalarization of black holes. Here we continue our work on simulating this phenomenon in the context of binary black hole systems. We consider a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-31 Matthew Elley , Hector O. Silva , Helvi Witek , Nicolás Yunes

We construct scalarized planar charged black holes in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar (EMS) theory with the presence of a negative cosmological constant. Domains of existence of black hole solutions are given in term of nonminimally coupling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-19 Chatchai Promsiri , Takol Tangphati , Ekapong Hirunsirisawat , Supakchai Ponglertsakul

In this paper we discuss singularity theorems in quantum gravity using effective field theory methods. To second order in curvature, this effective field theory contains two new degrees of freedom which have important implications for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-15 Folkert Kuipers , Xavier Calmet

Scalarization is a mechanism that endows strongly self-gravitating bodies, such as neutron stars and black holes, with a scalar-field configuration. It resembles a phase transition in that the scalar configuration appears only when a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-11 Daniela D. Doneva , Fethi M. Ramazanoğlu , Hector O. Silva , Thomas P. Sotiriou , Stoytcho S. Yazadjiev