Photon orbits and phase transition for non-linear charged anti-de Sitter black holes

A bstract In this work, we investigate the relation between the photon sphere radius and the first-order phase transition for the charged Einstein-power-Yang-Mills AdS black hole. Through the analysis, we find with a certain condition there exist the non-monotonic behaviors between the photon sphere radius, the impact parameter, the non-linear Yang-Mills charge parameter, temperature, and pressure. And both the changes of photon sphere radius and impact parameter before and after phase transition can be regarded as the order parameter, their critical exponents near the critical point are equal to the same value 1/2, just like the ordinary thermal systems. These indicate that there maybe exists a universal relation of gravity nearby the critical point for a black hole thermodynamical system. Furthermore, the effect of impact parameter on the deflect angle is also investigated.