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Quantum-Corrected Thermodynamics, Dirac Perturbations, Geodesic Structure, and Topological Phases of Black Holes with Non-Minimal Logarithmic Coupling

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We study the thermodynamic and dynamical properties of static, spherically symmetric BHs in Einstein-Maxwell theory modified by a non-minimal $\ln(R)F^{2}$ coupling. The Hawking temperature follows from the Hamilton-Jacobi form of the fermionic tunnelling method for spin-$\tfrac12$ particles, and it carries scale-dependent logarithmic corrections. We then analyze the propagation of massless Dirac fields, compute the quasinormal-mode (QNM) spectrum with the third-order WKB approximation, and read off a quality factor whose balance between oscillation and damping depends on the logarithmic coupling in a mode-dependent way. Moving outward from the horizon, we work out the transmission of the fermionic field and its Hawking emission, and we solve the null and timelike geodesic problems to obtain the photon sphere, the shadow radius, the innermost stable circular orbit (ISCO), the associated zoom-whirl bound orbits, and the orbital and epicyclic frequencies that set the twin-peak quasiperiodic-oscillation (QPO) ratio. A photon-sphere reading of the eikonal QNM frequencies ties the geodesic sector back to the field perturbations. On the thermodynamic side, we build the phase space with quantum-geometric corrections through the Barrow entropy, and we characterize the global phase structure with the topological method, where the winding numbers of the off-shell free energy are governed by the interplay of the fractal Barrow deformation, the electric charge, and the logarithmic coupling. We find that the effective pressure vanishes exactly on the topological defect line, which links the pressure sign to the local stability of each branch.

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İzzet Sakallı, Özcan Sert, Erdem Sucu, Yusuf Sucu. 2026-07-23. Quantum-Corrected Thermodynamics, Dirac Perturbations, Geodesic Structure, and Topological Phases of Black Holes with Non-Minimal Logarithmic Coupling. https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.21783

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