Abstract
We explore the low-temperature behavior of the Abelian Higgs model in AdS4-temp, away from the probe limit in which back-reaction of matter fields on the metric can be neglected. Over a significant range of charges for the complex scalar, we observe a second order phase transition at finite temperature. The symmetry-breaking states are superconducting black holes. At least when the charge of the scalar is not too small, we observe at low temperatures the emergence of a domain wall structure characterized by a definite index of refraction. We also compute the conductivity as a function of frequency.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 008 |
Journal | Journal of High Energy Physics |
Volume | 2009 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2009 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Keywords
- AdS-CFT correspondence
- Gauge-gravity correspondence