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A Dirty Holographic Superconductor

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-06-23 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Superconductivity General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We study the effects of disorder on a holographic superconductor by introducing a random chemical potential on the boundary. We consider various realizations of disorder and find that the critical temperature for superconductivity is enhanced. We also present evidence for a precise form of renormalization in this system. Namely, when the random chemical potential is characterized by a Fourier spectrum of the form k2αk^{-2\alpha} we find that the spectra of the condensate and the charge density are again power-laws, whose exponents are accurately and universally governed by linear functions of α\alpha.

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@article{arxiv.1308.1920,
  title  = {A Dirty Holographic Superconductor},
  author = {Daniel Arean and Arya Farahi and Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas and Ignacio Salazar Landea and Antonello Scardicchio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1308.1920},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

5 pages, 8 figures. v3: discussion improved, references added, typos corrected, results unchanged

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