Black hole instability induced by a magnetic field

2011/06/30 by Martin Ammon, Johanna Erdmenger, Patrick Kerner +1 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.10.067

published as Physics Letters B 706 (2011), 94-99 · 13 pages, 2 figures v2: Added references, fixed typos

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Abstract

In the context of gauge/gravity duality, we find a new black hole instability in asymptotically AdS spaces. On the field theory side, this instability is induced by a magnetic field in the vacuum, in contrast to previous instabilities which occur at finite density. On the gravity side, this corresponds to a spatial component of the gauge field in SU(2) Einstein–Yang–Mills theory, which provides the crucial non-Abelian structure. Our analysis may provide supporting evidence for recent QCD studies of ρ meson condensation induced by a magnetic field.

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