Holographic striped phases
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-05-28 v3
Abstract
We discuss new types of instabilities of D=4 electrically charged AdS-Reissner-Nordstr\"om black branes that involve neutral pseudo-scalars. The instabilities spontaneously break translational invariance and are associated with the dual three-dimensional CFTs, at finite temperature and fixed chemical potential with respect to a global abelian symmetry, acquiring striped phases. We show that such instabilities are present for the infinite class of skew-whiffed solutions of D=11 supergravity, albeit at a lower temperature than the known superfluid instabilities.
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@article{arxiv.1106.2004,
title = {Holographic striped phases},
author = {Aristomenis Donos and Jerome P. Gauntlett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.2004},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
20 pages, very minor changes, version published in JHEP