Hawking-Page Transition Research Articles

Delayed deconfinement and the Hawking-Page transition

We revisit the confinement/deconfinement transition in mathcal{N} = 4 super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory and its relation to the Hawking-Page transition in gravity. Recently there has been substantial progress on counting the microstates of 1/16-BPS extremal black holes. However, there is presently a mismatch between the Hawking-Page transition and its avatar in mathcal{N} = 4 SYM. This led to speculations about the existence of new gravitational saddles that would resolve the mismatch. Here we exhibit a phenomenon in complex matrix models which we call “delayed deconfinement.” It turns out that when the action is complex, due to destructive interference, tachyonic modes do not necessarily condense. We demonstrate this phenomenon in ordinary integrals, a simple unitary matrix model, and finally in the context of mathcal{N} = 4 SYM. Delayed deconfinement implies a first-order transition, in contrast to the more familiar cases of higher-order transitions in unitary matrix models. We determine the deconfinement line and find remarkable agreement with the prediction of gravity. On the way, we derive some results about the Gross-Witten-Wadia model with complex couplings. Our techniques apply to a wide variety of (SUSY and non-SUSY) gauge theories though in this paper we only discuss the case of mathcal{N} = 4 SYM.

Stability of topological solitons, and black string to bubble transition

We study the existence of smooth topological solitons and black strings as locally-stable saddles of the Euclidean gravitational action of five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell theory. These objects live in the Kaluza-Klein background of four dimensional Minkowski with an S1. We compute the off-shell gravitational action in the canonical ensemble with fixed boundary data corresponding to the asymptotic radius of S1, and to the electric and magnetic charges that label the solitons and black strings. We show that these objects are locally-stable in large sectors of the phase space with varying lifetime. Furthermore, we determine the globally-stable phases for different regimes of the boundary data, and show that there can be Hawking-Page transitions between the locally-stable phases of the topological solitons and black strings. This analysis demonstrates the existence of a large family of globally-stable smooth solitonic objects in gravity beyond supersymmetry, and presents a mechanism through which they can arise from the black strings.

Nonlinear-Maxwell-Yukawa de-Sitter black hole thermodynamics in a cavity: II - Grand canonical ensemble

Considering the grand canonical ensemble, we first discuss the thermodynamics of a generalized nonlinearly-charged-dS black hole enclosed in a finite spherical cavity. Such consideration means that the temperature and the potential on the wall of the cavity are fixed. Afterward, we focus on the Maxwell-Yukawa-dS black holes as a special case of investigation. The complete phase structure and stability are probed within the grand potential and the heat capacity. Our study reveals that the electric potential plays a key role in the phase portrait. Indeed, in the small values of the electric potential, the system undergoes a Hawking-Page transition and we found both phases the small and large branches. While, when the electric potential becomes relevant the large black hole phase disappears. In the end, we briefly discuss the relevant case associated with the extremal black hole one.

Chaos and pole skipping in CFT2

Recent work has suggested an intriguing relation between quantum chaos and energy density correlations, known as pole skipping. We investigate this relationship in two dimensional conformal field theories on a finite size spatial circle by studying the thermal energy density retarded two-point function on a torus. We find that the location ω* = iλ of pole skipping in the complex frequency plane is determined by the central charge and the stress energy one-point function 〈T〉 on the torus. In addition, we find a bound on λ in c > 1 compact, unitary CFT2s identical to the chaos bound, λ ≤ 2πT. This bound is saturated in large c CFT2s with a sparse light spectrum, as quantified by [1], for all temperatures above the dual Hawking-Page transition temperature.

Novel relations in massive gravity at Hawking-Page transition

Sign and magnitude of Ruppeiner's curvature $R_N$ is an empirical indicator of the respective nature and strength of microstructures of a thermodynamic system. For d-dimensional Schwarzschild black holes in AdS, $R_N$ at the Hawking-Page (HP) transition point is a universal constant. In this article we study the nature of $R_N$ at HP transition in a massive gravity theory and show that its constancy is broken due to the dependence on graviton mass as well as horizon topology. Although, when the graviton mass reaches a critical value the HP transition is driven to zero temperature, and $R_N$ at this point again approaches a universal negative constant, independent of all parameters of the theory. The geometry of black holes in AdS close to the HP transition point is also studied via novel near horizon scaling limits, and reveals the emergence of fully decoupled Rindler spacetimes.

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory from a D3-brane background with D-instantons

By constructing the configuration of D3-branes with D(-1)-branes as D-instantons, we study the three-dimensional Yang-Mills Chern-Simons theory in holography. Due to the presence of the D-instantons, the D7-branes with discrepant embedding functions are able to be introduced in order to include the fundamental fermions (as flavors) and the Chern-Simons term (at very low energy) in the dual theory. The vacuum structure at zero temperature is studied in the soliton background and it illustrates the topological phase transition in the presence of instantons. Moreover, since the confinement/deconfinement phase transition could be holographically identified as the Hawking-Page transition in the bulk, we accordingly calculate the critical temperature of the deconfinement phase transition by collecting the bulk onshell action as the thermodynamical free energy. On the other hand, we evaluate the difference of the entanglement entropy in slab configuration by using the RT formula since the confinement may also be characterized by the entanglement entropy. Altogether we find the behavior of the critical temperature is in qualitative agreement with the behavior of the critical length determined by the entanglement entropy which implies the entanglement entropy could indeed be a character of the confinement in our setup and the D3-D(-1) system would be a remarkable approach to study the three-dimensional gauge theory.

Three-dimensional massive Kiselev AdS black hole and its thermodynamics

We present an exact three-dimensional massive Kiselev AdS black hole solution. This Kiselev black hole is neither perfectly fluid, nor is it the quintessential solution, but the BTZ black hole modified by the anisotropic matter. This black hole possesses an essential singularity at its radial origin and a single horizon whose radius will increase monotonically when the parameter of the anisotropic matter field ω decreases. We calculate all thermodynamic quantities and find that the first law of thermodynamics of this massive Kiselev AdS black hole can be protected, while the consistent Smarr formula is only held in the extended thermodynamic phase space. After examining the sign of free energy, we conclude that there is no Hawking-Page transition since the massive Kiselev AdS black hole phase is always thermodynamically favored. Moreover, we study the phase transition between the Kiselev AdS black hole and BTZ black hole by considering the matchings for their temperature. We find that the Kiselev AdS black hole is still a thermodynamically more preferred phase, because it always has a smaller amount of free energy than the BTZ black hole, which seems to indicate that the anisotropic matter field may emerge naturally in BTZ black hole spacetime under some thermal fluctuations. We also show a first order phase transition between the Kiselev AdS black hole phase with and the black hole phase with . As the Kiselev AdS black hole has some notable features on the phase transition of black holes in three dimensions, it provides important clues to further investigate these both surprising and similar behaviors in four and higher dimensions.

A sharp transition in quantum chaos and thermodynamics of mass deformed SYK model

We review our recent work [1] where we studied the chaotic property of the two coupled Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev systems exhibiting a Hawking-Page like phase transition. By computing the out-of-time-ordered correlator in the large NN limit by using the bilocal field formalism, we found that the chaos exponent of this model shows a discontinuous fall-off at the phase transition temperature. Hence in this model the Hawking-Page like transition is correlated with a transition in chaoticity, as expected from the relation between a black hole geometry and the chaotic behavior in the dual field theory.

Configuration entropy in the soft wall AdS/QCD model and the Wien law

The soft wall AdS/QCD holographic model provides simple estimates for the spectra of light mesons and glueballs satisfying linear Regge trajectories. It is also an interesting tool to represent the confinement/deconfinement transition of a gauge theory, that is pictured as a Hawking-Page transition from a dual geometry with no horizon to a black hole space. A very interesting tool to analyze stability of general physical systems that are localized in space is the configuration (or complexity) entropy (CE). This quantity, inspired in Shannon information entropy, is defined in terms of the energy density of the system in momentum space. The purpose of this work is to use the CE to investigate the stability of the soft wall background as a function of the temperature. A nontrivial aspect is that the geometry is an anti-de Sitter black hole, that has a singular energy density. In order to make it possible to calculate the CE, we first propose a regularized form for the black hole energy density. Then, calculating the CE, it is observed that its behavior is consistently related to the black hole instability in anti-de Sitter space. Another interesting result that emerges from this analysis is that the regularized energy density shows a behavior similar to the Wien law, satisfied by black body radiation. That means: the momentum kmax where the energy density is maximum, varies with the temperature T obeying the relation: T/kmax=constant in the deconfined phase.

String scale thermal anti-de Sitter spaces

We study finite temperature string scale AdS3 backgrounds. One background is AdS3× S1× T2 in which the anti-de Sitter space-time and the circle are at the radius sqrt{alpha^{prime }} . Using path integral techniques, we show that the bulk spectrum includes a continuum of states as well as Ramond-Ramond ground states that agree with those of the symmetric orbifold of the two-torus after second quantization. We also examine the one-loop free energy of the background AdS3× S1 at curvature radius sqrt{2{alpha}^{prime }/3} . In the space-time NSNS sector, the string theory spontaneously breaks conformal symmetry as well as R-charge conjugation symmetry. We prove that the minimum in the boundary energy is reached for a singly wound string. In the RR sector, we classify the infinite set of ground states with fractional R-charges. Moreover, we remark on the behaviour of critical temperatures as the curvature scale becomes smaller than the string scale.In an appendix, we derive the Hawking-Page transition in string theory by integrating a world sheet one-point function.

Thermodynamics of AdS black holes from deflection angle formalism

We explore a link between AdS black hole thermodynamics and the deflection angle variation. Using the elliptic function analysis, we first study the phase structure of RN-AdS solutions in terms of optical aspects. Precisely, we find that the stable and the unstable phases can be derived from thermal variations of the deflection angle. Then, we investigate the Hawking-Page transition from the Gibbs energy optical dependence. Among others, we reveal that the large black hole/small black hole transition occurs at a specific value of the deflection angle. The finding results, being confirmed by the help of the Ruppeiner metric of the phase state space, indicate that the deflection angle can be exploited to unveil data on thermodynamics of AdS black holes.

Note on the thermodynamic stability of a black ring at quantum scales

In this paper, the thermodynamic properties of a thin black ring in AdS space-time is explored when the size of the ring is comparable to quantum scales. The angular momentum to mass ratio of this system has an upper limit, which is the cosmological radius of the black ring. It is found that the small black ring will be thermodynamically stable due to the effects introduced by thermal fluctuations. However, we find that the black ring is less stable than thermal AdS. Thermodynamic analysis indicates that there is no critical point, but there is Hawking-Page transition to radiation, which is confirmed by the Gibbs free energy analysis.

Topological or rotational non-Abelian gauge fields from Einstein-Skyrme holography

We report analytically known states at non-zero temperature which may serve as a powerful tool to reveal common topological and thermodynamic properties of systems ranging from the QCD phase diagram to topological phase transitions in condensed matter materials. In the holographically dual gravity theory, these are analytic solutions to a five-dimensional non-linear-sigma (Skyrme) model dynamically coupled to Einstein gravity. This theory is shown to be holographically dual to mathcal{N} = 4 Super-Yang-Mills theory coupled to an SU(2)-current. All solutions are fully backreacted asymptotically Anti-de Sitter (AdS) black branes or holes. One family of global AdS black hole solutions contains non-Abelian gauge field configurations with positive integer Chern numbers and finite energy density. Larger Chern numbers increase the Hawking-Page transition temperature. In the holographically dual field theory this indicates a significant effect on the deconfinement phase transition. Black holes with one Hawking temperature can have distinct Chern numbers, potentially enabling topological transitions. A second family of analytic solutions, rotating black branes, is also provided. These rotating solutions induce states with propagating charge density waves in the dual field theory. We compute the Hawking temperature, entropy density, angular velocity and free energy for these black holes/branes. These correspond to thermodynamic data in the dual field theory. For these states the energy-momentum tensor, (non-)conserved current, and topological charge are interpreted.

Configuration entropy and confinement/deconfinement transiton in holographic QCD

In the holographic AdS/QCD approach, the confinement/deconfinement transition is associated with the Hawking-Page transition of a thermal anti-de Sitter (AdS) space to an AdS black hole. In the case of the hard wall model, the thermal transition takes place in the planar AdS thanks to the introduction of an infrared cut-off in the geometry. The corresponding thermodynamic entropy of the SU(N) gauge theory jumps from proportional to N0 in the confined hadronic phase to proportional to N2 in the plasma phase, corresponding to the presence of the color degrees of freedom. The Hawking-Page transition is understood by considering a semiclassical picture of a system consisting of two different geometries that are asymptotically AdS. One is the AdS black hole and the other the thermal AdS space. The relative stability between these competing geometries varies with the temperature. So, the transition is essentially a problem of stability. An interesting tool to study stability of physical systems is the configuration entropy (CE), inspired in the Shannon informational entropy. In this work we investigate the CE for the case of the AdS/QCD hard wall model at finite temperature. We propose a regularized form for the energy densities of the black hole (BH) and of the thermal AdS geometries that makes it possible to calculate their CEs as a function of the temperature. We find a relation between stability and the value of the CE for the system of asymptotically AdS geometries. Remarkably, it is found that the CE is proportional to log⁡(T), where T is the temperature. This result makes it possible to write out a simple relation between the configuration and the thermodynamic entropies.

Phase transition of AdS black holes in 4D EGB gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics

Einstein–Gauss–Bonnet (EGB) gravity is an outcome of quadratic curvature corrections to the Einstein–Hilbert gravity action in the form of a Gauss–Bonnet (GB) term in D>4 dimensions and EGB gravity is topologically invariant in 4D. Recently several ways have been proposed for regularizing, a D→4 limit of EGB, for nontrivial gravitational dynamics in 4D. Motivated by the importance of anti-de Sitter gravity/conformal field theory correspondence (AdS/CFT), we analyse black holes with AdS asymptotic of regularized 4D EGB gravity coupled to the nonlinear electrodynamics (NED) field. For a static spherically symmetric ansatz the field equations are solved exactly, using two different approaches, for a NED Lagrangian to obtain an identical solution−namely NED charged AdS black holes in 4D EGB gravity which retains several known solutions. Owing to the NED charge corrected EGB black holes, the thermodynamic quantities are also modified, and the entropy does not obey the usual area law. We calculate the heat capacity and Helmholtz free energy, in terms of horizon radii, to investigate both local and global thermodynamic stability of black holes. We observe a secondary Hawking–Page transition between the smaller thermally favoured black hole and thermal AdS space. Our results show that the behaviour of Hawking’s evaporation abruptly halts at shorter radii regime such that the black holes do have a thermodynamically stable remnant with vanishing temperature.

Jackiw-Teitelboim gravity and the models of a Hawking-Page transition for 2D black holes

We propose a top down construction for Jackiw-Teitelboim (JT) gravity using compactification of $ D=5 $ gravity theories in the presence of Abelian ($ U(1) $) as well as $ SU(2) $ Yang-Mills (YM) fields. The background solutions corresponding to $ D=2 $ model have been obtained in the perturbative regime of the theory where the corrections have been estimated over the uncharged JT solutions while treating the gauge couplings as the parameters of the expansion. Our analysis reveals the existence of two classes of solutions namely, (i) the \emph{interpolating} vacuum solution with AdS$_2$ in the IR and Lifshitz$_2$ in the UV (which serves as the thermal radiation background for our analysis) and (ii) the charged 2D black hole solution exhibiting Lifshitz$_2$ asymptotics. The analysis on thermal stability reveals the onset of a first order phase transition at $ T \sim T_0 $ such that for $ T < T_0 $ the only possible state is the thermal radiation background without any black hole. On the other hand, as the temperature is gradually increased beyond certain \emph{crossover} value $ T\sim T_2 (>T_0 )$, an emerging \emph{globally} stable black hole dominated phase has been observed which clearly indicates the onset of Hawking-Page (HP) transition in 2D gravity models.

Novel dual relation and constant in Hawking-Page phase transitions

Universal relations and constants have important applications in understanding a physical theory. In this article, we explore this issue for Hawking-Page phase transitions in Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes. We find a novel exact dual relation between the minimum temperature of the ($d$+1)-dimensional black hole and the Hawking-Page phase transition temperature in $d$ dimensions, reminiscent of the holographic principle. Furthermore, we find that the normalized Ruppeiner scalar curvature is a universal constant at the Hawking-Page transition point. Since the Ruppeiner curvature can be treated as an indicator of the intensity of the interactions amongst black hole microstructures, we conjecture that this universal constant denotes an interaction threshold, beyond which a virtual black hole becomes a real one. This new dual relation and universal constant are fundamental in understanding Hawking-Page phase transitions, and might have new important applications in the black hole physics in the near future.

Thermodynamics of soft wall model of AdS/QCD in Einstein–Maxwell–Gauss–Bonnet gravity

We investigate the thermodynamics of the confinement–deconfinement transition in the soft wall model of QCD with Gauss–Bonnet corrections using anti-de Sitter – conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. In bulk AdS space–time the transition is geometric and is known as Hawking–Page transition. The Hawking–Page transition between two geometries, namely, charged AdS black hole and thermally charged AdS, have been studied with Gauss–Bonnet corrections up to first order. The Gauss–Bonnet coupling modifies the transition temperature of the system, but qualitative features remain unchanged. We obtain the curves between chemical potential and transition temperature for different values of Gauss–Bonnet couplings. We find that there exists a point in the μ–T plane where lines with different values of Gauss–Bonnet coupling cross. This point may be the onset of the transition from first-order to cross over behavior. The results are compared with that of the hard wall model.

Lessons for quantum cosmology from anti–de Sitter black holes

Gravitational physics is arguably better understood in the presence of a negative cosmological constant than a positive one, yet there exist strong technical similarities between the two settings. These similarities can be exploited to enhance our understanding of the more speculative realm of quantum cosmology, building on robust results regarding anti-de Sitter black holes describing the thermodynamics of holographic quantum field theories. To this end, we study 4-dimensional gravitational path integrals in the presence of a negative cosmological constant, and with minisuperspace metrics. We put a special emphasis on boundary conditions and integration contours. The Hawking-Page transition is recovered and we find that below the minimum temperature required for the existence of black holes the corresponding saddle points become complex. When the asymptotic anti-de Sitter space is cut off at a finite distance, additional saddle points contribute to the partition function, albeit in a very suppressed manner. These findings have direct consequences for the no-boundary proposal in cosmology, because the anti-de Sitter calculation can be brought into one-to-one correspondence with a path integral for de Sitter space with Neumann conditions imposed at the nucleation of the universe. Our results lend support to recent implementations of the no-boundary proposal focusing on momentum conditions at the "big bang".

Traversable wormhole and Hawking-Page transition in coupled complex SYK models

Recent work has shown that coupling two identical Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models can realize a phase of matter that is holographically dual to an eternal traversable wormhole. This phase supports revival oscillations between two quantum chaotic systems that can be interpreted as information traversing the wormhole. Here we generalize these ideas to a pair of coupled SYK models with complex fermions that respect a global U(1) charge symmetry. Such models show richer behavior than conventional SYK models with Majorana fermions and may be easier to realize experimentally. We consider two different couplings, namely tunneling and charge-conserving two-body interactions, and obtain the corresponding phase diagram using a combination of numerical and analytical techniques. At low temperature we find a charge-neutral gapped phase that supports revival oscillations, with a ground state close to the thermofield double, which we argue is dual to a traversable wormhole. We also find two different gapless non-Fermi liquid phases with tunable charge density which we interpret as dual to a `large' and `small' charged black hole. The gapped and gapless phases are separated by a first-order phase transition of the Hawking-Page type. Finally, we discuss an SU(2)-symmetric limit of our model that is closely related to proposed realizations of SYK physics with spinful fermions in graphene, and explain its relevance for future experiments on this system.