Gapless superconductivity and string theory

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2014.07.026zbMATH Open1325.82018arXiv1312.2535OpenAlexW2022409872MaRDI QIDQ894734FDOQ894734

Authors: Sergei Khlebnikov 

Publication date: 23 November 2015

Published in: Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Coexistence of superconducting and normal components in nanowires at currents below the critical (a "mixed" state) would have important consequences for the nature and range of potential applications of these systems. For clean samples, it represents a genuine interaction effect, not seen in the mean-field theory. Here we consider properties of such a state in the gravity dual of a strongly coupled superconductor constructed from D3 and D5 branes. We find numerically uniform gapless solutions containing both components but argue that they are unstable against phase separation, as their free energies are not convex. We speculate on the possible nature of the resulting non-uniform sate ("emulsion") and draw analogies between that state and the familiar mixed state of a type II superconductor in a magnetic field.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2535

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zbMATH Keywords

D3 and D5 branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Statistical mechanics of superconductors (82D55) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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