Josephson junctions and AdS/CFT networks

DOI10.1007/JHEP07(2011)112zbMATH Open1298.81185arXiv1105.6100WikidataQ59269628 ScholiaQ59269628MaRDI QIDQ467211FDOQ467211

Vasilis Niarchos, Elias Kiritsis

Publication date: 3 November 2014

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

Abstract: We propose a new holographic model of Josephson junctions (and networks thereof) based on designer multi-gravity, namely multi-(super)gravity theories on products of distinct asymptotically AdS spacetimes coupled by mixed boundary conditions. We present a simple model of a Josephson junction (JJ) that exhibits the well-known current-phase sine relation of JJs. In one-dimensional chains of holographic superconductors we find that the Cooper-pair condensates are described by a discretized Schrodinger-type equation. Such non-integrable equations, which have been studied extensively in the past in condensed matter and optics applications, are known to exhibit complex behavior that includes periodic and quasiperiodic solutions, chaotic dynamics, soliton and kink solutions. In our setup these solutions translate to holographic configurations of strongly-coupled superconductors in networks with weak site-to-site interactions that exhibit interesting patterns of modulated superconductivity. In a continuum limit our equations reduce to generalizations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We comment on the many possible extensions and applications of this new approach.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1105.6100

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceholography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)AdS-CFT correspondence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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) Molecular physics (81V55) Many-body theory; quantum Hall effect (81V70) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Supergravity (83E50)

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