Randeep Kaur | Searcharxiv

arXiv2026

Criticality Quenching and Microstructure of Quintessence-AdS Black Holes

In this work, we investigate the thermodynamic geometry of Reissner-Nordstrom Anti-de Sitter (RN-AdS) black holes with quintessence in the grand canonical ensemble. The analysis employs the Ruppeiner curvature scalar to elucidate the microscopic interactions and critical phenomena in the extended phase space. Divergence of the scalar curvature signal phase transitions, while its sign characterizes the nature of the underlying interactions; negative for attractive and positive for repulsive type interactions. The analysis reveals that attractive interactions dominate at low electric potentials, whereas repulsive interactions prevail at higher potentials unlike the usual charged black holes. Finally, the interaction strength is fairly constant during the phase transition, providing a greater understanding of the quintessence influenced microscopic attributes of RN-AdS black holes.

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arXiv2025

Probing phase transitions and microscopic interactions in quasi-topological black holes

In this paper, we examine the thermodynamic geometry of four-dimensional quasi-topological black holes by computing the Ruppeiner scalar curvature R which serves as an empirical tool to describe the nature of interactions among black hole microstructures. In four dimensions, we write novel black hole solutions within the framework of generalized quasi-topological gravity, extended through a fundamental p-form field. Temperature, entropy, and thermodynamic volume are explicitly expressed using the extended first law. The nature of the interactions between the microstructure is then revealed by computing R, where positive curvature indicates repulsion dominant interactions and negative curvature indicates the dominance of attraction. Our approach uses divergences and sign changing nature of R to identify critical points and phase transitions. Further, our analysis reveals a notably streamlined thermodynamic behavior, a single zero-crossing of curvature R, marking a second-order phase transition and offering direct insight into the underlying microstructure interactions.

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