Reentrant phase transitions in Einstein-Maxwell-scalar black holes
Dumitru Astefanesei (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Instituto de Física, Av. Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, Chile); Paulina Cabrera (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Departamento de Física, Av. España 1680, Valparaíso, Chile); Robert B. Mann (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 2Y5, Canada, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1, Canada); Raúl Rojas (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Instituto de Física, Av. Brasil 2950, Valparaíso, Chile)
We consider how scalar fields affect the thermodynamic behavior of charged anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes. We specifically investigate a class of ()-dimensional exact hairy charged AdS black hole solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-scalar gravity, whose stable ground state and finite horizon area in the zero temperature limit make it of particular interest. We find that the reverse isoperimetric inequality is satisfied for this class and that there exists an intermediate range of the charge that admits reentrant phase behavior, the first example of this type of phase behavior in () dimensions in a consistent theory.