Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034

Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser

Physics

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Abstract

I argue that coupling the Abelian Higgs model to gravity plus a negative cosmological constant leads to black holes which spontaneously break the gauge invariance via a charged scalar condensate slightly outside their horizon. This suggests that black holes can superconduct.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	065034
Journal	Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume	78
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034
State	Published - Sep 19 2008

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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