Gravity Dual of Spatially Modulated Phase

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2009-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/0911.0679v2

Phys.Rev.D81:044018,2010

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

29 pages, 6 figures v2: references added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.81.044018

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-Nordstrom black holes in anti-de Sitter space. The instability happens only at non-vanishing 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_5 x S^5 barely satisfies the stability condition.

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