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arxiv: 0912.0512 · v2 · pith:DAPVI3YGnew · submitted 2009-12-03 · ✦ hep-th

Quantum Criticality and Holographic Superconductors in M-theory

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keywords solutionscftsfieldholographicscalartheoryarbitraryblack
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We present a consistent Kaluza-Klein truncation of D=11 supergravity on an arbitrary seven-dimensional Sasaki-Einstein space (SE_7) to a D=4 theory containing a metric, a gauge-field, a complex scalar field and a real scalar field. We use this D=4 theory to construct various black hole solutions that describe the thermodynamics of the d=3 CFTs dual to skew-whiffed AdS_4 X SE_7 solutions. We show that these CFTs have a rich phase diagram, including holographic superconductivity with, generically, broken parity and time reversal invariance. At zero temperature the superconducting solutions are charged domain walls with a universal emergent conformal symmetry in the far infrared.

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