Further investigation on phase transitions of Born-Infeld AdS black holes.

In this paper, we further investigate the phase transitions of Born-Infeld AdS black holes in canonical ensemble. We take a different approach to investigate in detail the impact of the choice of parameters. Some interesting phase transition phenomena which has been ignored before are discovered. To examine the phase structure we find, we carry out the standard analysis of the behavior of free energy. We also apply the framework of geometrothermodynamics into Born-Infeld AdS black holes. It is shown that the Legendre invariant thermodynamic scalar curvature diverges exactly where the specific heat at constant charge diverges, which confirms the correctness of the phase structure we find. It is worth noting that although the phase structure shares similarity with RN-AdS black hole, it also has its unique characteristics due to influence of Born-Infeld electrodynamics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]