Critical current of a superconducting wire via gauge/gravity duality
High Energy Physics - Theory
2015-06-03 v5 Superconductivity
Abstract
We describe application of the gauge/gravity duality to study of thin superconducting wires at finite current. The large number N of colors of the gauge theory is identified with the number of filled transverse channels in the wire. On the gravity side, the physics is described by a system of D3 and D5 branes intersecting over a line. We consider the ground state of the system at fixed electric current and find that at zero temperature the normal state is always unstable with respect to appearance of a superconducting component. We discuss relation of our results to recent experiments on statistics of the switching current in nanowires.
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@article{arxiv.1201.5103,
title = {Critical current of a superconducting wire via gauge/gravity duality},
author = {Sergei Khlebnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1201.5103},
year = {2015}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure