Critical phenomena and reentrant phase transition of asymptotically Reissner–Nordström black holes

Abstract

By considering a small correction to the Maxwell field, we show that the resultant black hole solutions (also known as the asymptotically Reissner–Nordström black holes) undergo the reentrant phase transition and can have a novel phase behavior. We also show that such a small nonlinear correction of the Reissner–Nordström black holes has high effects on the phase structure of the solutions. It leads to a new classification in the canonical ensemble of extended phase space providing the values of the nonlinearity parameter α being α⋚4q2/7. We shall study these three classes and investigate deviations from those of the standard Reissner–Nordström solutions. Interestingly, we find that there is the reentrant phase transition for α<4q2/7, and for the case of α=4q2/7 there is no phase transition below (at) the critical point. For the last case, one finds that small and large black holes are thermodynamically distinguishable for temperatures and pressures higher than the critical ones.