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Black Hole Instability Induced by a Magnetic Field

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-05-28 v2

Abstract

In the context of gauge/gravity duality, we find a new black hole instability in asymptotically AdS spaces. On the field theory side, this instability is induced by a magnetic field in the vacuum, in contrast to previous instabilities which occur at finite density. On the gravity side, this corresponds to a spatial component of the gauge field in SU(2) Einstein-Yang-Mills theory, which provides the crucial non-Abelian structure. Our analysis may provide supporting evidence for recent QCD studies of Rho-meson condensation induced by a magnetic field.

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@article{arxiv.1106.4551,
  title  = {Black Hole Instability Induced by a Magnetic Field},
  author = {Martin Ammon and Johanna Erdmenger and Patrick Kerner and Migael Strydom},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.4551},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

13 pages, 2 figures v2: Added references, fixed typos

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