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Superfluid Black Holes
Robie A Hennigar1, Robert B Mann1, Erickson Tjoa2
1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1.
Abstract:
We present what we believe is the first example of a "λ-line" phase transition in black hole thermodynamics. This is a line of (continuous) second order phase transitions which in the case of liquid ^{4}He marks the onset of superfluidity. The phase transition occurs for a class of asymptotically anti-de Sitter hairy black holes in Lovelock gravity where a real scalar field is conformally coupled to gravity. We discuss the origin of this phase transition and outline the circumstances under which it (or generalizations of it) could occur.
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