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Various types of phase transitions in the AdS soliton background

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-05-18 v1

Abstract

We study the basic holographic insulator and superconductor phase transition in the AdS soliton background by generalizing the spontaneous breaking of a global U(1) symmetry to occur via Stu¨\ddot{u}ckelberg mechanism. We construct the soliton solutions with backreaction and examine the effects of the backreaction on the condensation of the scalar hair in the generalized Stu¨\ddot{u}ckelberg Lagrangian. We disclose rich physics in various phase transitions. In addition to the AdS soliton configuration, we also examine the property of the phase transition in the AdS black hole background.

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@article{arxiv.1104.2478,
  title  = {Various types of phase transitions in the AdS soliton background},
  author = {Yan Peng and Qiyuan Pan and Bin Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.2478},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

11 pages, accepted for publication in Phys.Lett.B