Thermodynamics of the hot BIon

Gianluca Grignani; Troels Harmark; Andrea Marini; Niels Anne Jacob Obers; Marta Orselli

doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.002

Thermodynamics of the hot BIon

Gianluca Grignani, Troels Harmark, Andrea Marini, Niels Anne Jacob Obers, Marta Orselli

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Journal	Nuclear Physics B
Volume	851
Issue number	3
Number of pages	19
ISSN	0550-3213
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2011.06.002
Publication status	Published - 21 Oct 2011

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