Holographic striped phases
Jun, 201120 pages
Published in:
- JHEP 08 (2011) 140
e-Print:
- 1106.2004 [hep-th]
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 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
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