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We revisit the large-Nc phase diagram of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super Yang-Mills theory at finite R-charge density and strong coupling, by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence. We conjecture new phases that result from a black hole shedding some of its charge through the nucleation of probe color D3-branes that remain at a finite distance from the black hole when the dual field theory lives on a sphere. In the corresponding ground states the color group is partially Higgsed, so these phases can be identified as having a type of color superconductivity. The new phases would appear at intermediate values of the R-charge chemical potential and we expect them to be metastable but long-lived in the large-Nc limit.
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Henriksson, O., Hoyos, C. & Jokela, N. Novel color superconducting phases of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super Yang-Mills at strong coupling. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 88 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2019)088
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