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Black holes as bubble nucleation sites
Ruth Gregory, Ian G. Moss, Benjamin Withers
We consider the effect of inhomogeneities on the rate of false vacuum decay. Modelling the inhomogeneity by a black hole, we construct explicit Euclidean instantons which describe…
A simple holographic model of momentum relaxation
Tomas Andrade, Benjamin Withers
We consider a holographic model consisting of Einstein-Maxwell theory in (d+1) bulk spacetime dimensions with (d-1) massless scalar fields. Momentum relaxation is realised simply t…
Warm p-soup and near extremal black holes
Takeshi Morita, Shotaro Shiba, Toby Wiseman +1
We consider a model of D-dimensional supergravity coupled to elementary p-branes. We use gravitational arguments to deduce the low energy effective theory of N nearly parallel bran…
The moduli space of striped black branes
Benjamin Withers
At finite charge density certain holographic models exhibit the spontaneous breaking of translational invariance resulting in an inhomogeneous phase. We follow up on recent numeric…
Black branes dual to striped phases
Benjamin Withers
We construct inhomogeneous charged black branes in AdS, holographically dual to a phase at finite chemical potential with spontaneously broken translation invariance in one directi…