Published June 15, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Analytic holographic superconductor

  • 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.

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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

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