Work

Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Year: 2008

Type: article

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.

Source: Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields

DOI: 10.1103/physrevd.78.065034

Author: Steven S. Gubser

Institution: Princeton University

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy

Awards: A SILICON-DRIFT-CHAMBER, A PARALLEL COMPUTER FORM, & READOUTDEVELOPMENT FOR AN ELECTROMAGNETIC CALORIMETER FOR THE SSC., Simulating Quark-Gluon Plasmas in String Theory