Critical behavior and phase transition of dilaton black holes with nonlinear electrodynamics

Abstract In this paper, we take into account the dilaton black hole solutions of Einstein gravity in the presence of logarithmic and exponential forms of nonlinear electrodynamics. First of all, we consider the cosmological constant and nonlinear parameter as thermodynamic quantities which can vary. We obtain thermodynamic quantities of the system such as pressure, temperature and Gibbs free energy in an extended phase space. We complete the analogy of the nonlinear dilaton black holes with the Van der Waals liquid–gas system. We work in the canonical ensemble and hence we treat the charge of the black hole as an external fixed parameter. Moreover, we calculate the critical values of temperature, volume and pressure and show that they depend on the dilaton coupling constant as well as on the nonlinear parameter. We also investigate the critical exponents and find that they are universal and independent of the dilaton and nonlinear parameters, which is an expected result. Finally, we explore the phase transition of nonlinear dilaton black holes by studying the Gibbs free energy of the system. We find that in the case of $$T>T_c$$ T>Tc , we have no phase transition. When $$T=T_c$$ T=Tc , the system admits a second-order phase transition, while for $$T=T_\mathrm{f}<T_c$$ T=Tf<Tc the system experiences a first-order transition. Interestingly, for $$T_\mathrm{f}<T<T_c$$ Tf<T