Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser

Type: Article

Publication Date: 2008-09-19

Citations: 1043

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

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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