Low temperature properties of holographic condensates

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)142zbMATH Open1301.81183arXiv1101.0215OpenAlexW1983440583MaRDI QIDQ475858FDOQ475858

Authors: Pallab Basu 

Publication date: 27 November 2014

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

Abstract: In the current work we study various models of holographic superconductors at low temperature. Generically the zero temperature limit of those models are solitonic solution with a zero sized horizon. Here we generalized simple version of those zero temperature solutions to small but non-zero temperature T. We confine ourselves to cases where near horizon geometry is AdS^4. At a non-zero temperature a small horizon would form deep inside this AdS^4 which does not disturb the UV physics. The resulting geometry may be matched with the zero temperature solution at an intermediate length scale. We understand this matching from separation of scales by setting up a perturbative expansion in gauge potential. We have a better analytic control in abelian case and quantities may be expressed in terms of hypergeometric function. From this we calculate low temperature behavior of various quatities like entropy, charge density and specific heat etc. We also calculate various energy gaps associated with p-wave holographic superconductor to understand the underlying pairing mechanism. The result deviates significantly from the corresponding weak coupling BCS counterpart.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.0215

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zbMATH Keywords

holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)AdS-CFT correspondenceblack holes in string theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical hypergeometric functions, ({}_2F_1) (33C05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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• Conductivity and entanglement entropy of high dimensional holographic superconductors
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