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Low-temperature behavior of the Abelian Higgs model in anti-de Sitter space
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore
We explore the low-temperature behavior of the Abelian Higgs model in AdS_4, away from the probe limit in which back-reaction of matter fields on the metric can be neglected. Over…
The gravity dual to a quantum critical point with spontaneous symmetry breaking
Steven S. Gubser, Fabio D. Rocha
We consider zero temperature solutions to the Abelian Higgs model coupled to gravity with a negative cosmological constant. With appropriate choices of parameters, the geometry con…
Entropy production in collisions of gravitational shock waves and of heavy ions
Steven S. Gubser, Silviu S. Pufu, Amos Yarom
We calculate the area of a marginally trapped surface formed by a head-on collision of gravitational shock waves in AdS_D. We use this to obtain a lower bound on the entropy produc…
Thermodynamics and bulk viscosity of approximate black hole duals to finite temperature quantum chromodynamics
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore, Silviu S. Pufu +1
We consider classes of translationally invariant black hole solutions whose equations of state closely resemble that of QCD at zero chemical potential. We use these backgrounds to…
Mimicking the QCD equation of state with a dual black hole
Steven S. Gubser, Abhinav Nellore
We present numerical and analytical studies of the equation of state of translationally invariant black hole solutions to five-dimensional gravity coupled to a single scalar. As an…
Colorful horizons with charge in anti-de Sitter space
Steven S. Gubser
An abelian gauge symmetry can be spontaneously broken near a black hole horizon in anti-de Sitter space using a condensate of non-abelian gauge fields. There is a second order phas…