Coexistent physics and microstructure of the regular Bardeen black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime

We study the phase structure and the microscopic interactions of a regular Bardeen-AdS black hole. The stable and metastable phases in the black hole are analysed through coexistence and spinodal curves. The solutions are obtained numerically as the analytic solution to the coexistence curve is not feasible. The Pr - Tr coexistence equation is obtained using a fitting formula. The coexistence and spinodal curves are plotted in Pr - Tr and Tr - Vr planes to explore the phase structure of the black hole. In the second part of our study, we were able to probe the microscopic interactions of the regular Bardeen-AdS black hole using the novel Ruppeiner geometry proposed by Wei et al. (2019). It is found that the microscopic interactions are not the same in small black hole (SBH) and large black hole (LBH) phases. In the SBH phase, there exists a repulsive interaction in the microstructure in the low temperature regime. In contrast, the microstructure associated with the LBH phase has an attractive interaction throughout the parameter space. We found that, along the coexistence temperature, both the SBH and LBH branches diverge to negative infinity with a critical exponent equal to 1/2. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.