P-wave superconductors in Dilaton gravity

DOI10.1002/PROP.201300034zbMATH Open1338.82073arXiv1310.2156OpenAlexW2008754933MaRDI QIDQ2812636FDOQ2812636

Publication date: 17 June 2016

Published in: Fortschritte der Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper, we study peculiar properties of p-wave superconductors in dilaton gravity. The scale invariance of the bulk geometry is effectively broken due to the existence of dilaton. By coupling the dilaton to the non-Abelian gauge field, i.e.,

, we find that the dissipative conductivity of the normal phase decreases and approaches zero at the zero frequency as

increases. Intuitively, the system behaves more and more like an insulator. When the hairy solution is turned on, the system crosses a critical point to the superconducting phase. We find that the critical chemical potential decreases with the increasing of

and the maximum height of the conductivity is suppressed gradually which are consistent with our intuition for insulator/supercondutor transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.2156

zbMATH Keywords

AdS/CFT correspondence gauge/gravity duality holographic p-wave superconductors

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Critical phenomena in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B27) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Statistical mechanics of solids (82D20) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55)

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