TY - JOUR
T1 - Thermodynamics of the hot BIon
AU - Grignani, Gianluca
AU - Harmark, Troels
AU - Marini, Andrea
AU - Obers, Niels Anne Jacob
AU - Orselli, Marta
PY - 2011/10/21
Y1 - 2011/10/21
N2 - We investigate the thermodynamics of the recently obtained finite temperature BIon solution of [G. Grignani, T. Harmark, A. Marini, N.A. Obers, M. Orselli, Heating up the BIon, arXiv:1012.1494 [hep-th]], focusing on two aspects. The first concerns comparison of the free energy of the three available phases for the finite-temperature brane-antibrane-wormhole configuration. Based on this we propose a heuristic picture for the dynamics of the phases that involves a critical temperature below which a stable phase exists. This stable phase is the finite temperature analogue of the thin throat branch of the extremal brane-antibrane-wormhole configuration. The second aspect that we consider is the possibility of constructing a finite temperature generalization of the infinite spike configuration of the extremal BIon. To this end we identify a correspondence point at the end of the throat where the thermodynamics of the D3-F1 blackfold configuration can be matched to that of k non-extremal black fundamental strings.
AB - We investigate the thermodynamics of the recently obtained finite temperature BIon solution of [G. Grignani, T. Harmark, A. Marini, N.A. Obers, M. Orselli, Heating up the BIon, arXiv:1012.1494 [hep-th]], focusing on two aspects. The first concerns comparison of the free energy of the three available phases for the finite-temperature brane-antibrane-wormhole configuration. Based on this we propose a heuristic picture for the dynamics of the phases that involves a critical temperature below which a stable phase exists. This stable phase is the finite temperature analogue of the thin throat branch of the extremal brane-antibrane-wormhole configuration. The second aspect that we consider is the possibility of constructing a finite temperature generalization of the infinite spike configuration of the extremal BIon. To this end we identify a correspondence point at the end of the throat where the thermodynamics of the D3-F1 blackfold configuration can be matched to that of k non-extremal black fundamental strings.
U2 - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.002
DO - 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.002
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0550-3213
VL - 851
JO - Nuclear Physics, Section B
JF - Nuclear Physics, Section B
IS - 3
ER -