Reentrant phase transitions in rotating anti–de Sitter black holes
Natacha AltamiranoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, CanadaDavid KubizňákPerimeter Institute, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, CanadaRobert B. MannDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada
2013en
ABI
Abstract
We study the thermodynamics of higher-dimensional singly spinning asymptotically AdS black holes in the canonical (fixed $J$) ensemble of extended phase space, where the cosmological constant is treated as pressure and the corresponding conjugate quantity is interpreted as thermodynamic volume. Along with the usual small/large black hole phase transition, we find a new phenomenon of reentrant phase transitions for all $d\ensuremath{\ge}6$ dimensions, in which a monotonic variation of the temperature yields two phase transitions from large to small and back to large black holes. This situation is similar to that seen in multicomponent liquids.
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