Thermodynamic phase transitions of Kerr-Newman black holes in de Sitter space

Abstract

A curious feature of black holes which rotate and/or carry electric charge is that as the rotation and/or charge is increased the black hole undergoes a second-order phase transition in which its specific heat changes from negative to positive. Here this phase transition is investigated for black holes in de Sitter-like universes.

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DOI

10.1088/0264-9381/6/12/018

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