2017 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2017

Superfluid black holes

30 May 2017, 16:15

15m

Botterell B143 (Queen's University)

CLOSED - Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition) Theoretical Physics / Physique théorique (DTP-DPT) T4-4 General Relativity II (DTP) | Relativité générale II (DPT)

Speaker

Robie Hennigar

Description

In my talk I will discuss a recently discovered class of black holes which are the first such examples to exhibit a lambda-transition, that is a line of second order (continuous) phase transitions. The lambda-transition resembles those which occur in the context of condensed matter systems which, in the case of ${}^4$He marks the normal fluid/superfluid transition. The transition occurs within the context of black hole chemistry for a class of asymptotically anti de Sitter black holes in cubic (and higher) order Lovelock gravity conformally coupled to a real scalar field. In my talk, I will introduce the model and the phase transition and also present the necessary conditions which allow for such a transition to occur more generally.

Presentation materials

hennigar_CAP_2017.pdf