Published June 15, 2010
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Journal article
Analytic holographic superconductor
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
Description
We investigate a holographic superconductor that admits an analytic treatment near the phase transition. In the dual 3+1-dimensional field theory, the phase transition occurs when a scalar operator of scaling dimension two gets a vacuum expectation value. We calculate current-current correlation functions along with the speed of second sound near the critical temperature. We also make some remarks about critical exponents. An analytic treatment is possible because an underlying Heun equation describing the zero mode of the phase transition has a polynomial solution. Amusingly, the treatment here may generalize for an order parameter with any integer spin, and we propose a Lagrangian for a spin-two holographic superconductor.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.126009;
- arXiv
- arXiv:1003.3278v3;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
- Journal Volume
- 81
- Journal Issue
- 12
- Journal Page Range
- p. 126009-126009.11
- ISSN
- 0556-2821
- CODEN
- PRVDAQ
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 42001287
- Subject category
- S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; CRITICAL TEMPERATURE; EQUATIONS; EXPECTATION VALUE; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; HOLOGRAPHY; LAGRANGIAN FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; ORDER PARAMETERS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; POLYNOMIALS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; SECOND SOUND; SPIN; SUPERCONDUCTORS; VELOCITY
- Descriptors DEC
- ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS; FIELD THEORIES; FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SIMULATION; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; TRANSITION TEMPERATURE
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- Notes
- (c) 2010 The American Physical Society