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We discuss a gravity dual of a charge density wave consisting of a U(1) gauge field and two scalar fields in the background of an AdS$_4$ Schwarzschild black hole together with an antisymmetric field (probe limit). Interactions drive the…

We analytically obtain the free energy and thermodynamic geometry of holographic superconductors in $2+1$-dimensions. The gravitational theory in the bulk dual to this $2+1$-dimensional strongly coupled theory lives in the $3+1$-dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-23 Debabrata Ghorai , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We show that a simple gravitational theory can provide a holographically dual description of a superconductor. There is a critical temperature, below which a charged condensate forms via a second order phase transition and the (DC)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Sean A. Hartnoll , Christopher P. Herzog , Gary T. Horowitz

We explore a holographic superconductor model in which a real scalar field is non-minimally coupled to a gauge field. We consider several types of the non-minimal coupling function h($\psi$) including exponential, hyperbolic (cosh),…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-18 Mahya Mohammadi , Ahmad Sheykhi

Based on the matching method, we explore the effects of adding an external magnetic field on the $s$-wave holographic superconductor when the gauge field is in the form of the logarithmic nonlinear source. First, we obtain the critical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-21 A. Sheykhi , F. Shamsi

We study holographic superconductors in 3+1 dimensions away from the probe limit, i.e. taking back-reaction of the space-time into account. We consider the case of pure Einstein- and Gauss-Bonnet gravity, respectively. Similar to the probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

We study the gravity duals of striped holographic superconductors in the AdS black hole and AdS soliton backgrounds. We show the dependences of the condensation and the critical temperature/critical chemical potential on the inhomogeneity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Xiao-Mei Kuang , Bin Wang , Xian-Hui Ge

We construct a holographic superconductor model, based on a gravity theory, which exhibits novel metal-insulator transitions. We investigate the condition for the condensation of the scalar field over the parameter space, and then focus on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-10 Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Jian-Pin Wu , Meng-He Wu

We study holographic superconductors in five dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity both numerically and analytically. We find the critical temperature of the superconductor decreases as backreaction is increased, although the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-14 Luke Barclay , Ruth Gregory , Sugumi Kanno , Paul Sutcliffe

By employing the gauge/gravity duality, we disclose the effects of the non-minimal coupling between the scalar and Maxwell fields on the holographic superconductors in the probe limit. As the background spacetime, we consider a five…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-16 Mahya Mohammadi , Ahmad Sheykhi

Holographic superconductors have been studied so far in the absence of dynamical electromagnetic fields, namely in the limit in which they coincide with holographic superfluids. It is possible, however, to introduce dynamical gauge fields…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Oriol Domènech , Marc Montull , Alex Pomarol , Alberto Salvio , Pedro J. Silva

We consider the gravity dual of strongly coupled system at a Lifshitz-fixed point and finite temperature, which was constructed in a recent work arXiv:0909.0263. We construct an Abelian Higgs model in that background and calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-10-27 Sang-Jin Sin , Shan-Shan Xu , Yang Zhou

We study the Gauss-Bonnet (GB) holographic superconductors in the presence of an external magnetic field. We describe the phenomena away from the probe limit. We derive the critical magnetic field of the GB holographic superconductors with…

General Physics · Physics 2011-12-13 M. R. Setare , D. Momeni

We obtain the thermodynamic geometry of a (2+1) dimensional strongly coupled quantum field theory at a finite temperature in a holographic set up, through the gauge/gravity correspondence. The bulk dual gravitational theory is described by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-30 Sayan Basak , Pankaj Chaturvedi , Poulami Nandi , Gautam Sengupta

We discuss a holographic model consisting of a $U(1)$ gauge field and a scalar field coupled to a charged AdS black hole under a spatially homogeneous chemical potential. By turning on a higher-derivative interaction term between the $U(1)$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 James Alsup , Eleftherios Papantonopoulos , George Siopsis , Kubra Yeter

We investigate the holographic entanglement entropy (HEE) with dark matter in a higher-dimensional AdS black hole spacetime including full back reaction, revealing its role as a diagnostic tool for critical phenomena in strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-28 Weiping Yao , Yifu Cai , Zehua Tian

We study a fully backreacted holographic model of a four-dimensional superconductor by including a higher curvature interaction in the bulk action. We study how the critical temperature and the field theory condensate vary in this model and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Massimo Siani

We study a general class of holographic superconductor models via the St\"{u}ckelberg mechanism in the non-minimal derivative coupling theory in which the charged scalar field is kinetically coupling to Einstein's tensor. We explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Songbai Chen , Qiyuan Pan , Jiliang Jing

Based on the analytical technique the effect of the static magnetic field on the s-wave holographic superconductor with dark matter sector of U(1)-gauge field type coupled to the Maxwell field has been examined. In the probe limit, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 L. Nakonieczny , M. Rogatko , K. I. Wysokinski

In the present paper, based on the notion of marginally stable modes of vector perturbations in the AdS soliton back ground we investigate the magnetic field effect on holographic $ p $- wave insulator/superconductor transition in the probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Dibakar Roychowdhury