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) |
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| Article number | 065034 |
| Journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology |
| Volume | 78 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 19 2008 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
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