Hunting for fermionic instabilities in charged AdS black holes
Hunting for fermionic instabilities in charged AdS black holes
Fermions scattering on a black hole background cannot develop an instability sourced by superradiance. However, in a global (or planar) AdS4-Reissner-Nordström background fermions can violate the AdS2 fermionic mass stability bound as measured by a near horizon observer at zero temperature. This suggests that AdS-Reissner-Nordström black holes might still be unstable to Dirac perturbations. Motivated by this observation we search for linear mode instabilities of Dirac fields in these backgrounds but find none. This is in contrast with the scalar field case, where a violation of the near-horizon Breitenlöhner-Freedman stability bound in the AdS-Reissner-Nordström background triggers the already known scalar condensation near-horizon linear instability (in the planar limit this is Gubser’s instability that initiated the holographic superconductor programme). We consider both the standard and alternative AdS/CFT quantizations (that preserve the conformal invariance of AdS). These are reflective boundary conditions that have vanishing energy flux at the asymptotic boundary.
AdS-CFT Correspondence, Black Holes
Campos Dias, Oscar
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Masachs Gonzalez, Ramon
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Papadoulaki, Olga
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Rodgers, Paul William
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29 April 2020
Campos Dias, Oscar
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Masachs Gonzalez, Ramon
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Papadoulaki, Olga
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Rodgers, Paul William
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Campos Dias, Oscar, Masachs Gonzalez, Ramon, Papadoulaki, Olga and Rodgers, Paul William
(2020)
Hunting for fermionic instabilities in charged AdS black holes.
Journal of High Energy Physics, 2020 (4), [196].
(doi:10.1007/JHEP04(2020)196).
Abstract
Fermions scattering on a black hole background cannot develop an instability sourced by superradiance. However, in a global (or planar) AdS4-Reissner-Nordström background fermions can violate the AdS2 fermionic mass stability bound as measured by a near horizon observer at zero temperature. This suggests that AdS-Reissner-Nordström black holes might still be unstable to Dirac perturbations. Motivated by this observation we search for linear mode instabilities of Dirac fields in these backgrounds but find none. This is in contrast with the scalar field case, where a violation of the near-horizon Breitenlöhner-Freedman stability bound in the AdS-Reissner-Nordström background triggers the already known scalar condensation near-horizon linear instability (in the planar limit this is Gubser’s instability that initiated the holographic superconductor programme). We consider both the standard and alternative AdS/CFT quantizations (that preserve the conformal invariance of AdS). These are reflective boundary conditions that have vanishing energy flux at the asymptotic boundary.
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Accepted/In Press date: 8 April 2020
Published date: 29 April 2020
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