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Improved semiclassical techniques are developed and applied to a treatment of a real scalar field in a $D$-dimensional gravitational background. This analysis, leading to a derivation of the thermodynamics of black holes, is based on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Horacio E. Camblong , Carlos R. Ordonez

We provide a characterization of the set of configurations in N=4 SYM theory that are dual to small AdS black holes. Our construction shows that the black hole dual states are approximately thermal on a SU(M) subset of degrees of freedom of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-24 Curtis T. Asplund , David Berenstein

We study a six matrix model with global $SO(3)\times SO(3)$ symmetry containing at most quartic powers of the matrices. This theory exhibits a phase transition from a geometrical phase at low temperature to a Yang-Mills matrix phase with no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-26 Badis Ydri , Ramda Khaled , Rouag Ahlam

Comparing with an ordinary thermodynamic system, we investigate the possible microscopic structure of a charged anti-de Sitter black hole completely from the thermodynamic viewpoint. The number density of the black hole molecules is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-18 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

The modeling of black holes is an important desideratum for any quantum theory of gravity. Not only is a classical black hole metric sought, but also agreement with the laws of black hole thermodynamics. In this paper, we describe how these…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 Nick Huggett , Keizo Matsubara

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of 3+1 dimensional black holes in asymptotically de Sitter spacetimes, conformally coupled to a real scalar field. We use a Euclidean action approach, where boundary value data is specified at a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-17 Fil Simovic , Danny Fusco , Robert B. Mann

We study the triple points and phase diagrams in the extended phase space of the charged Gauss-Bonnet black holes in $d$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space, where the cosmological constant appears as a dynamical pressure of the system and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-26 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Motivated by gauge/gravity group in the low energy effective theory of the heterotic string theory and novel aspects of massive gravity in the context of lattice physics, the minimal coupling of Gauss-Bonnet-massive gravity with Born-Infeld…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-19 S. H. Hendi , B. Eslam Panah , S. Panahiyan

We use the Legendre invariant formalism of geometrothermodynamics to investigate the geometric properties of the equilibrium space of a spherically symmetric phantom black hole with electric charge and dilaton. We find that at certain…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-24 H. Quevedo , M. N. Quevedo , A. Sanchez

It is well known that the thermodynamics of certain near-extremal black holes in asymptotically flat space can be lifted to an effective string description created from the intersection of D-branes. In this paper we present evidence that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven S. Gubser , Jonathan J. Heckman

The Lovelock theory is an extension of general relativity to higher dimensions. We study the Lovelock black hole for a string cloud model in arbitrary dimensional spacetime, and in turn also analyze its thermodynamical properties. Indeed,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-13 Tae-Hun Lee , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D. Maharaj , Dharmanand Baboolal

Thermodynamics of black holes in anti de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes typically contains critical points in the phase diagram, some of which correspond to the first order transition ending in a second order one. Following the recent proposal in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Pavan Kumar Yerra , Chandrasekhar Bhamidipati

We review recent developments on the thermodynamics of black holes in extended phase space, where the cosmological constant is interpreted as thermodynamic pressure and treated as a thermodynamic variable in its own right. In this approach,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-07 David Kubiznak , Robert B. Mann , Mae Teo

Recent studies have revealed synchronized multivalued behavior in thermodynamic, dynamical, and geometric quantities during the black hole first-order phase transition, which enables a diagnosis from different perspectives, yet its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-16 Shi-Hao Zhang , Zi-Yuan Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Recently, black hole thermodynamics and phase transition have been studied in the extended phase space. Besides the VdW-like phase transition, more interesting phase transitions were found. More interestingly, combining with the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-03 Shao-Wen Wei , Yu-Xiao Liu

Recently, the phase space of black holes in a spherical cavity of radius $r_{B}$ has been extended by introducing a thermodynamic volume $V\equiv4\pi r_{B}^{3}/3$. In the extended phase space, we consider the thermodynamic geometry, which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-14 Peng Wang , Feiyu Yao

Black shells have been proposed as black hole mimickers, i.e. horizonless ultra-compact objects that replace black holes. In this paper, we assume the existence of black shells and consider their thermodynamic properties, but remain…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-04 Ulf Danielsson , Vyshnav Mohan , Larus Thorlacius

The Euler-Heisenberg black holes with quantum electrodynamics (QED) correction are embraced by a cavity in this paper, which serves as a boundary of the black hole spacetime and contributes to the equilibrium of the system. We explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-10 Qin Yu , Qi Xu , Jun Tao

We consider N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with SU(N) gauge group at large N and at finite temperature on a spatial S^3. We show that, at finite weak 't Hooft coupling, the theory is naturally described as a two dimensional Coulomb…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hartnoll , S. Prem Kumar

We discuss black hole solutions of Einstein gravity in presence of nonlinear electrodynamics in dS spacetime. Considering prescribed entropy, thermodynamic volume of dS spacetime, We investigate properties of the effective thermodynamic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-22 Hui-Hua Zhao , Li-Chun Zhang , Fang Liu , Ren Zhao