Published January 23, 2014 | Version v1
Journal article

Conductivity of strongly coupled striped superconductor

  • 1. Department of Physics, West Virginia University,Morgantown, West Virginia 26506 (United States)
  • 2. Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of Tennessee,Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1200 (United States)

Description

We study the conductivity of a strongly coupled striped superconductor using gauge/gravity duality (holography). The study is done analytically, in the large modulation regime. We show that at low temperatures, the optical conductivity is inhomogeneous and anisotropic, but with the anisotropy vanishing when the scaling dimension of the superconducting order parameter is unity. Near but below the critical temperature, we calculate the conductivity analytically at small frequency ω and find it to be both inhomogeneous and anisotropic. The anisotropy is imaginary and scales like 1/ω. We also calculate analytically the speed of the second sound and the thermodynamic susceptibility

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2014)132; Available from http://repo.scoap3.org/record/1051

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics (Online)
Journal Volume
2014
Journal Issue
01
Journal Page Range
p. 132
ISSN
1029-8479

INIS

Country of Publication
Germany
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
47036163
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
Descriptors DEI
ANISOTROPY; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; GRAVITATION; ORDER PARAMETERS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SECOND SOUND; SUPERCONDUCTORS
Descriptors DEC
DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; FIELD THEORIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE

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Copyright
Copyright (c) OPEN ACCESS, © The Authors
Notes
PUBLISHER-ID: JHEP01(2014)132; OAI: oai:repo.scoap3.org:1051
Funding organization
SCOAP3, CERN, Geneva (Switzerland)