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Order parameter fluctuations in the holographic superconductor

High Energy Physics - Theory 2017-01-17 v4 Superconductivity

Abstract

We investigate the effect of order parameter fluctuations in the holographic superconductor. In particular, using a fully backreacted bulk geometry, the intrinsic spectral functions of the order parameter in both the normal and the superconducting phase are computed. We also present a vector-like large-NN version of the Ginzburg-Landau model that accurately describes our long-wavelength results in both phases. The large-NN limit of the latter model explains why the Higgs mode and the second-sound mode are not present in the spectral functions. Our results indicate that the holographic superconductor describes a relativistic multi-component superfluid in the universal regime of the BEC-BCS crossover.

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@article{arxiv.1511.05112,
  title  = {Order parameter fluctuations in the holographic superconductor},
  author = {N. W. M. Plantz and H. T. C. Stoof and S. Vandoren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1511.05112},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

21 pages, 15 figures; version accepted for publication

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