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most citedVan der Waals criticality in AdS black holes: a phenomenological study

70 citations · 426 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

gr-qc2026

Entropic route to Brown-York tensor: A unified framework for null and timelike hypersurfaces

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bhera Ram, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Building on Padmanabhan's entropy functional, originally introduced to derive Einstein's equations and highlight the emergent nature of gravity, we demonstrate its robustness in a…

gr-qc2026

Generalized First Law and Smarr-type Relation: Beyond Additivity and Extensivity

Usman Zafar, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Kazuharu Bamba

In this work, we develop a general framework for deriving the first law of black hole thermodynamics and the associated Smarr-type relation for 4-dimensional static spherically sym…

gr-qc2026★ 2 cited

Chaotic Dynamics in Extremal Black Holes: A Challenge to the Chaos Bound

Surojit Dalui, Chiranjeeb Singha, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

We investigate chaotic dynamics in extremal black holes by analyzing the motion of massless particles in both Reissner-Nordström and Kerr geometries. Two complementary approaches (…

hep-th2025★ 15 cited

Thermodynamic analysis of black holes with cloud of strings and quintessence via Barrow entropy

Usman Zafar, Kazuharu Bamba, Tabinda Rasheed +1

We explore a Reissner-Nordström Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black hole with a cloud of string and quintessence to study thermodynamics and thermodynamic topology in the presence of Bar…

gr-qc2024

A note on gravity and fluid dynamic correspondence on a null hypersurface

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumit Dey, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In the extensive literature on fluid-gravity correspondence formulated on null hypersurfaces, the Carrollian and membrane paradigm approaches have predominantly employed a timelike…

gr-qc2024★ 3 cited

Scalar-tensor theories of gravity from a thermodynamic viewpoint

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumanta Chakraborty

In any diffeomorphism invariant theory of gravity, one can define a Noether charge arising from the invariance of the Lagrangian under diffeomorphisms. We have determined the Noeth…

gr-qc2024★ 35 cited

Topological interpretation of extremal and Davies-type phase transitions of black holes

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Kazuharu Bamba, Douglas Singleton

Topological arguments are currently being used as a novel scheme to discern the properties of black holes while ignoring their detailed structure and specific field equations. Amon…

gr-qc2023★ 2 cited

Boundary terms and Brown-York quasi-local parameters for scalar-tensor theory: a study on both timelike and null hypersurfaces

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Kazuharu Bamba

Boundary term and Brown-York (BY) formalism, which is based on the Hamilton-Jacobi principle, are complimentary of each other as the gravitational actions are not, usually, well-po…

gr-qc2022★ 6 cited

Scalar-tensor gravity from thermodynamic and fluid-gravity perspective

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

Out of several possible extensions of general relativity, the scalar-tensor theory is the most popular for several reasons. Since the quantum description of gravity is yet to be fo…

gr-qc2022★ 4 cited

A novel probe of Einstein-Hilbert action: Dynamic upgradation of metric parameters

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

The Einstein-Hilbert (EH) action is peculiar in many ways. Some of the Peculiar features have already been highlighted in literature. In the present article, we have discussed some…

gr-qc2021★ 19 cited

Extended phase space thermodynamics of black holes: A study in Einstein's gravity and beyond

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya

In the extended phase space approach, one can define thermodynamic pressure and volume that gives rise to the van der Waals type phase transition for black holes. For Einstein's GR…

physics.hist-ph2021

The Life and Science of Thanu Padmanabhan

Jasjeet Singh Bagla, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumanta Chakraborty +21

Thanu Padmanabhan was a renowned Indian theoretical physicist known for his research in general relativity, cosmology, and quantum gravity. In an extraordinary career spanning fort…

gr-qc2021★ 15 cited

Thermodynamic structure of a generic null surface and the zeroth law in scalar-tensor theory

Sumit Dey, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We show that the equation of motion of scalar-tensor theory acquires thermodynamic identity when projected on a generic null surface. The relevant projection is given by $E_{ab}l^a…

hep-th2020★ 15 cited

Fluid-gravity correspondence in the scalar-tensor theory of gravity: (in)equivalence of Einstein and Jordan frames

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Douglas Singleton

The duality of gravitational dynamics (projected on a null hypersurface) and of fluid dynamics is investigated for the scalar tensor (ST) theory of gravity. The description of ST g…

gr-qc2019★ 25 cited

Thermogeometric study of van der Waals like phase transition in black holes: an alternative approach

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

It is well-known that the non-extremal anti-de-Sitter (AdS) black holes show various van der Waals type criticalities, such as the , , , etc. In these cases,…

gr-qc2019★ 35 cited

A general framework to study the extremal phase transition of black holes

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Sumit Dey, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi +1

We investigate the universality of some features for the extremal phase transition of black holes and unify all the approaches which have been applied in different spacetimes. Unli…

gr-qc2018★ 5 cited

Abbott-Deser-Tekin like conserved quantities in Lanczos-Lovelock gravity: beyond Killing diffeomorphisms

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We obtain the conserved Abbott-Deser-Tekin (ADT)-{\it like} current for the Lanczos-Lovelock gravity for a diffeomorphism vector, which defines the horizon of a spacetime and, impo…

gr-qc2018★ 22 cited

Noether and Abbott-Deser-Tekin conserved quantities in scalar-tensor theory of gravity both in Jordan and Einstein frames

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Ashmita Das, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We revisit the thermodynamic aspects of the scalar-tensor theory of gravity in the Jordan and in the Einstein frame. Examining the {\it missing links} of this theory carefully, we…

gr-qc2018★ 11 cited

Noncommutative Heisenberg algebra in the neighbourhood of a generic null surface

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We show that the diffeomorphisms, which preserve the null nature for a generic null metric very near to the null surface, provide {\it noncommutative} Heisenberg algebra. This is t…

gr-qc2017★ 70 cited

Van der Waals criticality in AdS black holes: a phenomenological study

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi, Saurav Samanta

AdS black holes exhibit van der Waals type phase transition. In the {\it extended} phase-space formalism, the critical exponents for any spacetime metric are identical to the stand…

gr-qc2017★ 10 cited

Fluctuation-dissipation in accelerated frames

Ananya Adhikari, Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Chandramouli Chowdhury +1

An uniformly accelerated (Rindler) observer will detect particles in the Minkowski vacuum, known as Unruh effect. The spectrum is thermal and the temperature is given by that of th…

gr-qc2017★ 44 cited

Fresh look at the scalar-tensor theory of gravity in Jordan and Einstein frames from undiscussed standpoints

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study the scalar-tensor theory of gravity profoundly in the action level as well as in the thermodynamic level. Contrary to the usual description in the literature about the equ…

gr-qc2017★ 65 cited

Thermogeometric description of the van der Waals like phase transition in AdS black holes

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

It is well known that interpreting the cosmological constant as the pressure, the AdS black holes behave as the van der Waals thermodynamic system. In this case, like a phase trans…

gr-qc2016★ 23 cited

Temperature and thermodynamic structure of Einstein's equations for a cosmological black hole

Krishnakanta Bhattacharya, Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

It is expected that the cosmological black holes are the closest realistic solutions of gravitational theories and they evolve with time. Moreover, the natural way of defining ther…