TY - JOUR
T1 - Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon
AU - Gubser, Steven S.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2008/9/19
Y1 - 2008/9/19
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:52949115611
VL - 78
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 6
M1 - 065034
ER -