Reentrant phase transitions in Einstein-Maxwell-Scalar black holes

Authors:
  • DADumitru Astefanesei
    Dumitru Astefanesei
  • PCPaulina Cabrera
    Paulina Cabrera
  • RMRobert B. Mann
    Robert B. Mann
  • RRRaúl Rojas
    Raúl Rojas
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Abstract
We consider how scalar fields affect the thermodynamic behaviour of charged anti-de Sitter (AdS) black holes. We specifically investigate a class of (3+1)-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 behaviour, the first example of this type of phase behaviour in (3+1)-dimensions in a consistent theory.