Competing p-wave orders

Donos, Aristomenis; Gauntlett, Jerome P.; Pantelidou, Christiana

Abstract

We construct electrically charged, asymptotically AdS5 black hole solutions that are dual to d = 4 CFTs in a superfluid phase with either p-wave or (p + ip)-wave order. The two types of black holes have non-vanishing charged two-form in the bulk and appear at the same critical temperature in the unbroken phase. Both the p-wave and the (p + ip)-wave phase can be thermodynamically preferred, depending on the mass and charge of the two-form, and there can also be first order transitions between them. The p-wave black holes have a helical structure and some of them exhibit the phenomenon of pitch inversion as the temperature is decreased. Both the p-wave and the (p + ip)-wave black holes have zero entropy density ground states at zero temperature and we identify some new ground states which exhibit scaling symmetry, including a novel scenario for the emergence of conformal symmetry in the IR.

Citation

Donos, A., Gauntlett, J. P., & Pantelidou, C. (2014). Competing p-wave orders. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 31(5), https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/5/055007

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Deposit Date: Dec 10, 2014
• Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity
• Print ISSN: 0264-9381
• Electronic ISSN: 1361-6382
• Publisher: IOP Publishing
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 5
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/31/5/055007
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1440352