Finn Larsen (University of Michigan) “Fragmentation of AdS Black Holes”

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Abstract: 

All black holes in AdS become unstable at a non-zero critical temperature, except if they are protected by supersymmetry. In the favored ground state, the black hole fragments into a a finite matter halo and a smaller remnant. In the dual CFT description, the instability is realized by two phases with distinct condensates that meet at a critical line with a gapped phase and restored supersymmetry.