Holographic CFT phase transitions and criticality for rotating AdS black holes
- Author(s)
- Moaathe Belhaj Ahmed, Wan Cong, David Kubizňák, Robert B. Mann, Manus R. Visser
- Abstract
Employing the novel exact dictionary between the laws of extended black hole thermodynamics and the laws of the dual CFT, we study the extended thermodynamics for CFT states that are dual to neutral singly-spinning asymptotically AdS black holes in d bulk spacetime dimensions. On the field theory side we include two independent pairs of thermodynamic conjugate variables: the central charge-chemical potential term and the pressure-volume term. In this setting we uncover various phase transitions and critical behaviour in the CFT, focusing on three different thermodynamic ensembles. Namely, for fixed angular momentum and central charge, we show there is a Van der Waals-like criticality for d = 4, 5 and reentrant phase transitions for d ≥ 6. At fixed angular velocity and central charge, there is a first-order (de)confinement phase transition in all dimensions d ≥ 3. Finally, at fixed angular momentum and chemical potential we find a plethora of zero-order phase transitions and unstable phases in both d = 4 and d = 6.
- Organisation(s)
- Gravitational Physics
- External organisation(s)
- University of Waterloo (UW), Charles University Prague, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
- Journal
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Volume
- 2023
- No. of pages
- 32
- ISSN
- 1029-8479
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.03161
- Publication date
- 08-2023
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103012 High energy physics, 103028 Theory of relativity
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/holographic-cft-phase-transitions-and-criticality-for-rotating-ads-black-holes(b0f39c1d-6330-4150-9f7b-3a3abcae7e9f).html