{
  "id": "0801.2977",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2008-01-18T21:23:56.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-01-18T21:23:56.000Z",
  "title": "Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon",
  "authors": [
    "Steven S. Gubser"
  ],
  "comment": "15 pages, 2 figures",
  "journal": "Phys.Rev.D78:065034,2008",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevD.78.065034",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "I argue that coupling the Abelian Higgs model to gravity plus a negative cosmological constant leads to black holes which spontaneously break the gauge invariance via a charged scalar condensate slightly outside their horizon. This suggests that black holes can superconduct.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2008-01-18T21:23:56.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "11.15.Ex",
      "11.25.Tq",
      "74.20.-z"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "black hole horizon",
      "abelian gauge symmetry",
      "charged scalar condensate slightly outside",
      "abelian higgs model",
      "gauge invariance"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review D",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 78,
      "number": 6,
      "pages": "065034"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 15,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 777762,
      "adsabs": "2008PhRvD..78f5034G"
    }
  }
}