Black branes dual to striped phases
High Energy Physics - Theory
2013-10-17 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We construct inhomogeneous charged black branes in AdS, holographically dual to a phase at finite chemical potential with spontaneously broken translation invariance in one direction. These are obtained numerically, solving PDEs for the fully backreacted system. Fixing the periodicity scale, we find a second order phase transition to the inhomogeneous phase. We comment on the properties of the state emerging at low temperatures. For some models we demonstrate the existence of a branch of striped solutions but no continuous phase transition.
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@article{arxiv.1304.0129,
title = {Black branes dual to striped phases},
author = {Benjamin Withers},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.0129},
year = {2013}
}
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16 pages, 9 figures