General relativity and the cuprates

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Publication:303433

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2013)087zbMATH Open1342.83084arXiv1302.6586MaRDI QIDQ303433FDOQ303433


Authors: Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We add a periodic potential to the simplest gravitational model of a superconductor and compute the optical conductivity. In addition to a superfluid component, we find a normal component that has Drude behavior at low frequency followed by a power law fall-off. Both the exponent and coefficient of the power law are temperature independent and agree with earlier results computed above Tc. These results are in striking agreement with measurements on some cuprates. We also find a gap Delta=4.0Tc, a rapidly decreasing scattering rate, and "missing spectral weight" at low frequency, all of which also agree with experiments.


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