Date:
15. December 2017 - 12:00
Speaker:
Antonia Micol Frassino (Université de Genève)
Black Hole Chemistry is a new viewpoint on black hole thermodynamics, one
that indicates that once vacuum energy is taken into account, black holes
behave more like chemical systems. As a consequence, the mass of a black
hole becomes chemical enthalpy, and the notion of a thermodynamic volume
appears. In this framework, black holes exhibit a novel chemical-type
phase behavior, such as liquid/gas phase transitions similar to a Van der
Waals fluid, triple points similar to that of water, and re-entrant phase
transitions that appear in gels. Moreover, this new perspective seems also
to have implications in QCD/black holes analog models.