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Extended thermodynamics of the bumblebee black holes

arXiv:2304.08030 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.108.024004

Abstract

As a vector-tensor theory including nonminimal coupling between the Ricci tensor and a vector field, the bumblebee gravity is a potential theory to test Lorentz symmetry violation. Recently, a new class of numerical spherical black holes in the bumblebee theory was constructed. In this paper, we investigate the associated local thermodynamic properties. By introducing a pair of conjugated thermodynamic quantities and , which can be interpreted as an extension of electric potential and charge of the Reissner Nordström black holes, we numerically construct a new first law of thermodynamics for bumblebee black holes. We then study the constant- processes in the entropy-charge parameter space. For the constant- processes, we also calculate the heat capacity to study the local thermodynamic stability of the bumblebee black holes. For a negative nonminimal coupling coefficient , we find both divergent and smooth phase transitions. For a positive but small , only a divergent phase transition is found. It turns out that there is a critical value such that when , even the divergent phase transition disappears and the bumblebee black holes thus become locally thermodynamically unstable regardless of the bumblebee charge. As for , the smooth phase transition arises again but there no longer exists any discontinuous phase transition for the bumblebee black holes.

10 pages, 3 figures; accepted for publication in PRD

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