Dynamical charged black hole spontaneous scalarization in anti–de Sitter spacetimes

Abstract

We study the fully nonlinear dynamics of the spherically symmetric black hole spontaneous scalarization in Einstein Maxwell scalar theory with coupling function $f(\ensuremath{\phi})={e}^{\ensuremath{-}b{\ensuremath{\phi}}^{2}}$, which can transform usual Reissner-Nordstr\"om anti--de Sitter (RN-AdS) black holes into hairy black holes. Fixing the Arnowitt-Deser-Misner mass of the system, the initial scalar perturbation will destroy the original RN-AdS black hole and turn it into a spherically symmetric hairy black hole provided that the constant $\ensuremath{-}b$ in the coupling function and the charge of the original black hole are sufficiently large, while the cosmological constant is small enough. In the scalarization process, we observe that the black hole irreducible mass initially increases exponentially, then it approaches to and finally saturates at a finite value. Choosing stronger coupling and larger black hole charge, we find that the black hole mass exponentially grows earlier and it takes longer time for a hairy black hole to be developed and stabilized. We further examine phase structure properties in the scalarization process and confirm the observations in the nonlinear dynamical study.