Thermodynamics of phase transition in higher dimensional AdS black holes
Sep, 2011Citations per year
Abstract: (arXiv)
We investigate the thermodynamics of phase transition for dimensional Reissner Nordstrom (RN)-AdS black holes using a grand canonical ensemble. This phase transition is characterized by a discontinuity in specific heat. The phase transition occurs from a lower mass black hole with negative specific heat to a higher mass black hole with positive specific heat. By exploring Ehrenfest's scheme we show that this is a second order phase transition. Explicit expressions for the critical temperature and critical mass are derived. In appropriate limits the results for dimensional Schwarzschild AdS black holes are obtained.Note:
- LaTex, 11 pages, 5 figures, To appear in JHEP
- Black Holes
- Classical Theories of Gravity
- thermodynamics: critical phenomena
- black hole: Reissner-Nordstroem
- black hole: Schwarzschild
- specific heat
- any-dimensional
- black hole: anti-de Sitter
- numerical calculations
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