Flavor superconductivity from gauge/gravity duality

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2009, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Ammon, Martin ^a   Erdmenger, Johanna ^a   Kerner, Patrick ^a   Kaminski, Matthias ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR PHYSIK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Black Holes; D branes; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350757781     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/067     Document Type: Article

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