Holographic superconductivity of a critical Fermi surface
Abstract
We derive a holographic formulation of triplet superconductivity in a two-dimensional metal at a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Starting from a large- Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of compressible fermions coupled to quantum-critical Ising ferromagnetic fluctuations, we reformulate the pairing problem in terms of bilocal collective fields and analyze Gaussian fluctuations around the quantum-critical normal state. We demonstrate that the resulting pairing action can be mapped onto a scalar field theory in an emergent curved spacetime with AdS geometry. The additional holographic dimension is shown to encode the internal dynamics of Cooper pairs and is related nonlocally to the frequency dependence of the anomalous Gor'kov function via a Radon transform. Within this framework, the onset of superconductivity corresponds to a Breitenlohner-Freedman instability of the scalar field, which is shown to be equivalent to the pairing instability obtained from the linearized Eliashberg equations. The factorized AdS geometry reflects the local-in-space but critical-in-time character of fermionic excitations near a metallic quantum critical point and corresponds to what one expects in the vicinity of a Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole. Our results provide a microscopic derivation of holographic superconductivity in a compressible quantum critical metal and clarify the geometric structure underlying quantum-critical pairing.
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@article{arxiv.2209.00474,
title = {Holographic superconductivity of a critical Fermi surface},
author = {Veronika C. Stangier and Jörg Schmalian},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00474},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
16 pages, 4 figures, New co-author added. Substantial revision with corrected analysis