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Holographic striped phases

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We discuss new types of instabilities of D = 4 electrically charged AdS-Reissner-Nordström black branes that involve neutral pseudo-scalars. The instabilities spontaneously break translational invariance and are associated with the dual three-dimensional CFTs, at finite temperature and fixed chemical potential with respect to a global abelian symmetry, acquiring striped phases. We show that such instabilities are present for the infinite class of skew-whiffed AdS 4 × SE 7 solutions of D = 11 supergravity, albeit at a lower temperature than the known superfluid instabilities.

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Donos, A., Gauntlett, J.P. Holographic striped phases. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 140 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2011)140

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