Hawking–Page phase transition
Thermal phase transition in AdS black holes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In quantum gravity, the Hawking–Page phase transition is phase transition between AdS black holes with radiation and thermal AdS.
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Stephen Hawking and Don Page (Hawking & Page (1983)) showed that although AdS black holes can be in stable thermal equilibrium with radiation, they are not the preferred state below a certain critical temperature . At this temperature, there will be a first order phase transition where below
, thermal AdS will become the dominant contribution to the partition function.
The Hawking-Page phase transition between the unstable small black hole to stable large black hole phase is understood as a confinement-deconfinement phase transition in the dual conformal field theory via AdS/CFT correspondence.[1]