Phenomenological models of holographic superconductors and Hall currents

Critical exponents in context of PDEs (35B33) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82B35) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

Abstract: We study general models of holographic superconductivity parametrized by four arbitrary functions of a neutral scalar field of the bulk theory. The models can accommodate several features of real superconductors, like arbitrary critical temperatures and critical exponents in a certain range, and perhaps impurities, boundary or thickness effects. We find analytical expressions for the critical exponents of the general model and show that they satisfy the Rushbrooke identity. An important subclass of models exhibits second order phase transitions. A study of the specific heat shows that general models can also describe holographic superconductors undergoing first, second and third (or higher) order phase transitions. We discuss how small deformations of the HHH model lead to the appearance of resonance peaks in the conductivity, which become narrower as the temperature is gradually decreased, without the need for tuning mass of the scalar to be close to the Breitenlohner-Freedman bound. Finally, we investigate the inclusion of a generalized "theta term" producing Hall effect without magnetic field.

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