Building an AdS/CFT superconductor

By S. Hartnoll, Christopher P. Herzog, G. Horowitz. 2008

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We show that a simple gravitational theory can provide a holographically dual description of a superconductor. There is a critical temperature, below which a charged condensate forms via a second order phase transition and the (DC) conductivity becomes infinite. The frequency dependent conductivity develops a gap determined by the condensate. We find evidence that the condensate consists of pairs of quasiparticles.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Gravity duals for non-relativistic CFTs (2008, unknown): “It 8 Our metric is therefore a solution of the same system studied in the first and last references in [17], with very different asymptotics.”
Holographic Superconductors (2008, methodology): “It had been found in [3] that in the probe limit (q →∞) the condensate appeared to diverge as T/Tc → 0, perhaps indicating an instability of the theory.”
Heating up Galilean holography (2008, unknown): “[4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12] for a sampling) has already applied this AdS/CMat correspondence to strongly correlated electrons, superconductors, the quantum Hall effect, and more.”
Supercurrent: Vector hair for an AdS black hole (2008, methodology): “) It has been argued in [1] that this new solution has a lower free energy than the regular black hole solution with ψ = 0 and there is a second order phase transition associated with this phenomenon.”
Analytic holographic superconductor (2010, background): “The model of [1, 2] has been studied over the last several years in great detail.”
Ground states of holographic superconductors (2009, methodology): “In [6], the Abelian Higgs model was treated in a probe approximation, where the matter fields do not back-react appreciably on the metric.”
The gravity dual of a p-wave superconductor (2008, methodology): “In section 4 we study the electromagnetic response, along the lines of [3].”
Pseudogap and time reversal breaking in a holographic superconductor (2008, unknown): “38 98 v2 [”