189 research outputs found
Zero Temperature Limit of Holographic Superconductors
We consider holographic superconductors whose bulk description consists of
gravity minimally coupled to a Maxwell field and charged scalar field with
general potential. We give an analytic argument that there is no "hard gap":
the real part of the conductivity at low frequency remains nonzero (although
typically exponentially small) even at zero temperature. We also numerically
construct the gravitational dual of the ground state of some holographic
superconductors. Depending on the charge and dimension of the condensate, the
infrared theory can have emergent conformal or just Poincare symmetry. In all
cases studied, the area of the horizon of the dual black hole goes to zero in
the extremal limit, consistent with a nondegenerate ground state.Comment: 27 pages, 8 figure
On (multi-)center branes and exact string vacua
Multicenter supergravity solutions corresponding to Higgs phases of
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theories are considered. For NS5 branes we identify
three cases where there is a description in terms of exact conformal field
theories. Other supergravity solutions, such as D3-branes with angular
momentum, are understood as special limits of multicenter ones. Within our
context we also consider 4-dim gravitational multi-instantons.Comment: 9 pages, latex; To be published in the proceedings of the Quantum
Aspects of Gauge Theories, Supersymmetry and Unification, Corfu, Greece,
20-26 September 199
Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory
We suggest a means of obtaining certain Green's functions in 3+1-dimensional
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with a large number of colors
via non-critical string theory. The non-critical string theory is related to
critical string theory in anti-deSitter background. We introduce a boundary of
the anti-deSitter space analogous to a cut-off on the Liouville coordinate of
the two-dimensional string theory. Correlation functions of operators in the
gauge theory are related to the dependence of the supergravity action on the
boundary conditions. From the quadratic terms in supergravity we read off the
anomalous dimensions. For operators that couple to massless string states it
has been established through absorption calculations that the anomalous
dimensions vanish, and we rederive this result. The operators that couple to
massive string states at level acquire anomalous dimensions that grow as
2\left (n g_{YM} \sqrt {2 N} )^{1/2} for large `t Hooft coupling. This is a
new prediction about the strong coupling behavior of large SYM theory.Comment: 15 pages, harvmac with btxmac; minor revisions, 1 reference added,
the version to appear in Physics Letters
Tachyon Condensation and Black Strings
We show that under certain conditions, closed string tachyon condensation
produces a topology changing transition from black strings to Kaluza-Klein
"bubbles of nothing." This can occur when the curvature at the horizon is much
smaller than the string scale, so the black string is far from the
correspondence point when it would make a transition to an excited fundamental
string. This provides a dramatic new endpoint to Hawking evaporation. A similar
transition occurs for black p-branes, and can be viewed as a nonextremal
version of a geometric transition. Applications to AdS black holes and the AdS
soliton are also discussed.Comment: 23 pages, 1 figure, v2: references adde
Introduction to Holographic Superconductors
These lectures give an introduction to the theory of holographic
superconductors. These are superconductors that have a dual gravitational
description using gauge/gravity duality. After introducing a suitable
gravitational theory, we discuss its properties in various regimes: the probe
limit, the effects of backreaction, the zero temperature limit, and the
addition of magnetic fields. Using the gauge/gravity dictionary, these
properties reproduce many of the standard features of superconductors. Some
familiarity with gauge/gravity duality is assumed. A list of open problems is
included at the end.Comment: 34 pages, 10 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the 5th Aegean
Summer School, "From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories: the AdS/CFT
Correspondence"; v2: references adde
Vector Meson Propagator and Baryon Current Conservation
If baryons couple only with -mesons, one found the baryon spectral
function may be negative. We show this unacceptable result is caused by the
-terms in the -meson propagator. Their contribution may
not vanish in approximate calculations which violate the baryon current
conserves. A rule is suggested, by which the calculated baryon spectral
function is well behaved.Comment: 9 pages (LaTeX file), 3 figures (PostScript file
Negative Energy, Superluminosity and Holography
The holographic connection between large Super Yang Mills theory and
gravity in anti deSitter space requires unfamiliar behavior of the SYM theory
in the limit that the curvature of the AdS geometry becomes small. The
paradoxical behavior includes superluminal oscillations and negative energy
density. These effects typically occur in the SYM description of events which
take place far from the boundary of AdS when the signal from the event arrives
at the boundary. The paradoxes can be resolved by assuming a very rich
collection of hidden degrees of freedom of the SYM theory which store
information but give rise to no local energy density. These degrees of freedom,
called precursors, are needed to make possible sudden apparently acausal energy
momentum flows. Such behavior would be impossible in classical field theory as
a consequence of the positivity of the energy density. However we show that
these effects are not only allowed in quantum field theory but that we can
model them in free quantum field theory.Comment: Expanded version replacing earlier hep-th/990218
Stability of the non-extremal enhancon solution I: perturbation equations
We consider the stability of the two branches of non-extremal enhancon
solutions. We argue that one would expect a transition between the two branches
at some value of the non-extremality, which should manifest itself in some
instability. We study small perturbations of these solutions, constructing a
sufficiently general ansatz for linearised perturbations of the non-extremal
solutions, and show that the linearised equations are consistent. We show that
the simplest kind of perturbation does not lead to any instability. We reduce
the problem of studying the more general spherically symmetric perturbation to
solving a set of three coupled second-order differential equations.Comment: 20 pages, 1 figure, references added, typos fixed, version to appear
in PR
Rotating nonuniform black string solutions
We explore via linearized perturbation theory the Gregory-Laflamme
instability of rotating black strings with equal magnitude angular momenta. Our
results indicate that the Gregory-Laflamme instability persists up to
extremality for all even dimensions between six and fourteen. We construct
rotating nonuniform black strings with two equal magnitude angular momenta in
six dimensions. We see a first indication for the occurrence of a topology
changing transition, associated with such rotating nonuniform black strings.
Charged nonuniform black string configurations in heterotic string theory are
also constructed by employing a solution generation technique.Comment: 36 pages, 10 figures, final versio
Black Holes on Cylinders
We take steps toward constructing explicit solutions that describe
non-extremal charged dilatonic branes of string/M-theory with a transverse
circle. Using a new coordinate system we find an ansatz for the solutions with
only one unknown function. We show that this function is independent of the
charge and our ansatz can therefore also be used to construct neutral black
holes on cylinders and near-extremal charged dilatonic branes with a transverse
circle. For sufficiently large mass these solutions have a horizon
that connects across the cylinder but they are not translationally invariant
along the circle direction. We argue that the neutral solution has larger
entropy than the neutral black string for any given mass. This means that for
the neutral black string can gain entropy by redistributing its mass
to a solution that breaks translational invariance along the circle, despite
the fact that it is classically stable. We furthermore explain how our
construction can be used to study the thermodynamics of Little String Theory.Comment: latex, 68 pages, 4 figures. v2: Typos fixed, argument about \chi
corrected in sec. 7.4, discussion of space of physical solutions corrected
and clarified in sec. 9; v3: v=\pi clarified, typos fixed, figure 1 change
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