Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser
Phys. Rev. D 78, 065034 – Published 19 September 2008

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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  • Received 21 June 2008

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034

©2008 American Physical Society

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Steven S. Gubser

  • Joseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA

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Vol. 78, Iss. 6 — 15 September 2008

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