Recent Developments in Holographic Black Hole Chemistry

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1 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada

2 Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, 31 Caroline St., Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 2Y5, Canada

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One of the major developments in classical black hole thermodynamics is the inclusion of vacuum energy in the form of thermodynamic pressure. Known as Black Hole Chemistry, this subdiscipline has led to the realization that anti de Sitter black holes exhibit a broad variety of phase transitions that are essentially the same as those observed in chemical systems. Since the pressure is given in terms of a negative cosmological constant (which parametrizes the vacuum energy), the holographic interpretation of Black Hole Chemistry has remained unclear. In the last few years there has been considerable progress in developing an exact dictionary between the bulk laws of Black Hole Chemistry and the laws of the dual Conformal Field Theory (CFT). Holographic Black Hole Chemistry is now becoming an established subfield, with a full thermodynamic bulk/boundary correspondence, and an emergent understanding of CFT phase behaviour and its correspondence in the bulk. Here I review these developments, highlighting key advances and briefly discussing future prospects for further research.

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Volume 4, Issue 1
March 2024
Pages 1-26
  • Receive Date: 18 November 2023
  • Revise Date: 13 December 2023
  • Accept Date: 20 December 2023