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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 SU(2)×U(1)SU(2)\times U(1) 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

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