Hawking–Page phase transition

Template:Short description Template:Multiple In quantum gravity, the Hawking–Page phase transition is phase transition between AdS black holes with radiation and thermal AdS.

Stephen Hawking and Don Page (Template:Harvtxt) 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 $T_C$. At this temperature, there will be a first order phase transition where below $T_C$, 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.

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