Negative refraction and superconductivity

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2011)104zbMATH Open1303.83018arXiv1107.1242OpenAlexW3099574628MaRDI QIDQ489538FDOQ489538

Authors: Antonio Amariti, Davide Forcella, Alberto Mariotti, Massimo Siani 

Publication date: 20 January 2015

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

Abstract: We discuss exotic properties of charged hydrodynamical systems, in the broken superconducting phase, probed by electromagnetic waves. Motivated by general arguments from hydrodynamics, we observe that negative refraction, namely the propagation in opposite directions of the phase velocities and of the energy flux, is expected for low enough frequencies. We corroborate this general idea by analyzing a holographic superconductor in the AdS/CFT correspondence, where the response functions can be explicitly computed. We study the dual gravitational theory both in the probe and in the backreacted case. We find that, while in the first case the refractive index is positive at every frequency, in the second case there is negative refraction at low enough frequencies. This is in agreement with hydrodynamic considerations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.1242

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zbMATH Keywords

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffraction, scattering (78A45) Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) 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) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Black holes (83C57) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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