Supersymmetric BCS

DOI10.1007/JHEP06(2012)104MaRDI QIDQ1795695zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Alejandro Barranco, J. G. Russo

Publication date 16 October 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1204.4157

zbMATH Keywords

holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)supersymmetric effective theories

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60)

Abstract: We implement relativistic BCS superconductivity in N=1 supersymmetric field theories with a U(1)_R symmetry. The simplest model contains two chiral superfields with a Kahler potential modified by quartic terms. We study the phase diagram of the gap as a function of the temperature and the specific heat. The superconducting phase transition turns out to be first order, due to the scalar contribution to the one-loop potential. By virtue of supersymmetry, the critical curves depend logarithmically with the UV cutoff, rather than quadratically as in standard BCS theory. We comment on the difficulties in having fermion condensates when the chemical potential is instead coupled to a baryonic U(1)_B current. We also discuss supersymmetric models of BCS with canonical Kahler potential constructed by "integrating-in" chiral superfields.

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