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We study the condensation of a charged scalar field in a (3 + 1)-dimensional asymptotically AdS background in the context of Einsteinian cubic gravity, featuring a holographic superconductor with higher curvature corrections corresponding to a CFT with a non-vanishing value of the stress tensor three-point function t4. As it was previously noticed for higher dimensional Gauss-Bonnet theory, we observe that the critical temperature of the superconducting phase transition is lowered as the higher curvature coupling grows.
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Edelstein, J.D., Grandi, N. & Sánchez, A.R. Holographic superconductivity in Einsteinian Cubic Gravity. J. High Energ. Phys. 2022, 188 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2022)188
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