Gravity dual of spatially modulated phase

Journal Article · Mon Feb 15 00:00:00 EST 2010 · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVD.81.044018· OSTI ID:21409306

Nakamura, Shin ^[1]; Ooguri, Hirosi ^[2]; Park, Chang-Soon ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8502 (Japan)
2. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125 (United States)

We show that the five-dimensional Maxwell theory with the Chern-Simons term is tachyonic in the presence of a constant electric field. When coupled to gravity, a sufficiently large Chern-Simons coupling causes instability of the Reissner-Nordstroem black holes in anti-de Sitter space. The instability happens only at nonvanishing momenta, suggesting a spatially modulated phase in the holographically dual quantum field theory in (3+1) dimensions, with spontaneous current generation in a helical configuration. The three-charge extremal black hole in the type IIB superstring theory on AdS{sub 5}xS{sup 5} barely satisfies the stability condition.

• OSTI ID: 21409306
• Journal Information: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 81, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.044018; (c) 2010 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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