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Entanglement Entropy and Wilson Loop in St\"{u}ckelberg Holographic Insulator/Superconductor Model

High Energy Physics - Theory 2012-12-17 v2

Abstract

We study the behaviors of entanglement entropy and vacuum expectation value of Wilson loop in the St\"{u}ckelberg holographic insulator/superconductor model. This model has rich phase structures depending on model parameters. Both the entanglement entropy for a strip geometry and the heavy quark potential from the Wilson loop show that there exists a "confinement/deconfinement" phase transition. In addition, we find that the non-monotonic behavior of the entanglement entropy with respect to chemical potential is universal in this model. The pseudo potential from the spatial Wilson loop also has a similar non-monotonic behavior. It turns out that the entanglement entropy and Wilson loop are good probes to study the properties of the holographic superconductor phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.1209.1019,
  title  = {Entanglement Entropy and Wilson Loop in St\"{u}ckelberg Holographic Insulator/Superconductor Model},
  author = {Rong-Gen Cai and Song He and Li Li and Li-Fang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.1019},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

23 pages,12 figures. v2: typos corrected, accepted in JHEP