Intertwined order and holography: the case of the parity breaking pair density wave

Abstract

We present a minimal bottom-up extension of the Chern-Simons bulk action for holographic translational symmetry breaking that naturally gives rise to pair density waves. We construct stationary inhomogeneous black hole solutions in which both the U(1) symmetry and spatially translational symmetry are spontaneously broken at finite temperature and charge density. This novel solution provides a dual description of a superconducting phase intertwined with charge, current and parity orders.Comment: v3: Revised version in which the rules of effective field theory are highlighted, to appear in Phys.Rev.Let