Critical phenomena in the AdS/CFT duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2011-03-10 v1
Abstract
We review black holes with second-order phase transition in string theory (R-charged black holes and holographic superconductors) and review their static and dynamic critical phenomena. Holographic superconductors have conventional mean-field values for static critical exponents, but R-charged black holes have unconventional ones. For dynamic universality class, holographic superconductors belong to model A, and R-charged black holes belong to model B in the classification of Hohenberg and Halperin. The analysis suggests that some black holes do obey the theory of critical phenomena in condensed matter physics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.4930,
title = {Critical phenomena in the AdS/CFT duality},
author = {Makoto Natsuume},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.4930},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
8 pages, PTPTeX; For Proceedings of NFQCD2010 (Jan. 18-March 19, 2008, YITP)