Holographic striped phases

Jun, 2011
20 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 08 (2011) 140
e-Print:
Report number:
  • IMPERIAL-TP-2011-JG-02

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We discuss new types of instabilities of D=4 electrically charged AdS-Reissner-Nordstr\"om black branes that involve neutral pseudo-scalars. The instabilities spontaneously break translational invariance and are associated with the dual three-dimensional CFTs, at finite temperature and fixed chemical potential with respect to a global abelian symmetry, acquiring striped phases. We show that such instabilities are present for the infinite class of skew-whiffed AdS4×SE7AdS_4\times SE_7 solutions of D=11 supergravity, albeit at a lower temperature than the known superfluid instabilities.
Note:
  • 20 pages, very minor changes, version published in JHEP
  • Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)
  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • symmetry: U(1)
  • field theory: conformal
  • black brane: solution
  • magnetic field
  • supergravity: 11
  • symmetry: translation
  • spontaneous symmetry breaking