Gravity dual to a quantum critical point with spontaneous symmetry breaking

Steven S. Gubser, Fábio D. Rocha

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Abstract

We consider zero-temperature solutions to the Abelian Higgs model coupled to gravity with a negative cosmological constant. With appropriate choices of parameters, the geometry contains two copies of anti-de Sitter space, one describing conformal invariance in the ultraviolet, and one in the infrared. The effective speed of signal propagation is smaller in the infrared. Green's functions and associated transport coefficients can have unusual power-law scaling in the infrared. We provide an example in which the real part of the conductivity scales approximately as ω3.5 for small ω.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number061601
JournalPhysical review letters
Volume102
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 13 2009

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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