Holographic Vitrification

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the existence of stable and metastable black hole bound states in anti-de Sitter space, which exhibit glass-like properties and complex relaxation dynamics, enriching the holographic understanding of structural glasses.

Contribution

It introduces stable and metastable black hole bound states in AdS space and links their properties to glassy dynamics in holography.

Findings

Existence of stable and metastable black hole bound states in AdS.

These states exhibit logarithmic aging in their relaxation dynamics.

The states are proposed to be holographic duals of structural glasses.

Abstract

We establish the existence of stable and metastable stationary black hole bound states at finite temperature and chemical potentials in global and planar four-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We determine a number of features of their holographic duals and argue they represent structural glasses. We map out their thermodynamic landscape in the probe approximation, and show their relaxation dynamics exhibits logarithmic aging, with aging rates determined by the distribution of barriers.