Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

2008/01/18 by Steven S. Gubser · 1,035 citations
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Abelian group #Astronomy #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Black hole (networking) #Charged black hole #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Extremal black hole #Higgs boson #Horizon #Mathematical physics #Mathematics #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Nonsingular black hole models #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum electrodynamics #Theoretical physics #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.78.065034

published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 78(6) (American Physical Society) · 15 pages, 2 figures

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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.

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