Holographic helical superconductors
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-30 v3
Abstract
We show that D=5 electrically charged AdS black branes can have instabilities associated with spatially modulated p-wave superconductors with helical structure. We show that the instabilities are present within N=4 gauged supergravity and hence within D=10 and D=11 supergravity.
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@article{arxiv.1109.3866,
title = {Holographic helical superconductors},
author = {Aristomenis Donos and Jerome P. Gauntlett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.3866},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
21 pages, 3 figures. Very minor changes. Version to be published in JHEP