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Competing p-wave orders

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-17 v1

Abstract

We construct electrically charged, asymptotically AdS5AdS_5 black hole solutions that are dual to d=4d=4 CFTs in a superfluid phase with either p-wave or (p+ip)(p+ip)-wave order. The two types of black holes have non-vanishing charged two-form in the bulk and appear at the same critical temperature in the unbroken phase. Both the p-wave and the (p+ip)(p+ip)-wave phase can be thermodynamically preferred, depending on the mass and charge of the two-form, and there can also be first order transitions between them. The p-wave black holes have a helical structure and some of them exhibit the phenomenon of pitch inversion as the temperature is decreased. Both the p-wave and the (p+ip)(p+ip)-wave black holes have zero entropy density ground states at zero temperature and we identify some new ground states which exhibit scaling symmetry, including a novel scenario for the emergence of conformal symmetry in the IR.

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@article{arxiv.1310.5741,
  title  = {Competing p-wave orders},
  author = {Aristomenis Donos and Jerome P. Gauntlett and Christiana Pantelidou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.5741},
  year   = {2015}
}

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42 pages, 26 figures

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