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Spatial variation in the superconducting order parameter becomes significant when the system is confined at dimensions well below the typical superconducting coherence length. Motivated by recent experimental success in growing…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-10 J. E. Han , Vincent H. Crespi

We study an electronic model of a 2D superconductor with onsite randomness using Quantum Monte Carlo simulations. The superfluid density is used to track the destruction of superconductivity in the ground state with increasing disorder. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Nandini Trivedi , Richard T. Scalettar , Mohit Randeria

We find a new class of metastable de Sitter solutions in compactifications of six-dimensional supergravity motivated by type IIB or heterotic string vacua. Two Fayet-Iliopoulos terms of a local U(1) symmetry are generated by magnetic flux…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-08 Wilfried Buchmuller , Markus Dierigl , Fabian Ruehle , Julian Schweizer

Recently a new time-evolution picture of the Dirac quantum mechanics was defined in charts with spatially flat Robertson-Walker metrics, under the name of Schr\"{o}dinger picture [I. I. Cot\u{a}escu, arXiv:0708.0734] . In the present paper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Ion I. Cotăescu

Consistent uplifting of AdS vacua in string theory often requires extra light degrees of freedom in addition to those of a (Kaehler) modulus. Here we consider the possibility that de Sitter and Minkowski vacua arise due to hidden sector…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Oleg Lebedev , Hans Peter Nilles , Michael Ratz

A gravitational theory with derivative matter coupling is proposed which adopt de Sitter expansion at late times with ordinary baryonic matter. Matter components are conserved separately in the cosmological background and the Newtonian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-19 Zahra Haghani , Shahab Shahidi

Black holes typically inhabit highly dynamical galactic environments and are frequently permeated by accretion media. The inevitable scattering of scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational waves off rotating and charged black holes provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-22 Giacomo Mascher , Kyriakos Destounis , Kostas D. Kokkotas

A review of some errors made by the author and others in their search for quantum models of gravity in cosmological space-times that asymptote to de Sitter (dS) space in the future. The "static de Sitter Hamiltonian", which measures the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-06 Tom Banks

The de Sitter conjecture yields a severe bound on possible vacua for a consistent quantum gravity. We extend the de Sitter conjecture by taking into account dynamics of the scalar field. We then apply such an extended de Sitter conjecture…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-30 Muneto Nitta , Kunihito Uzawa

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

It is shown that the so-called $\alpha$-vacua which have been proposed as candidates for states of free quantum fields on de Sitter space have infinitely strong fluctuations for typical observables as averaged renormalized energy momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen , Stefan Hollands

The article studies the dynamical behavior of axial gravitational perturbations of homogeneous stars in Anti-de Sitter spacetime. Because the radial coordinate $r$ transforms into the tortoise coordinate $y = y(r)$, obeying $y(r=0)=0$ and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-03 Kai Lin , Alan B. Pavan , Amilcar Rabelo de Queiroz , Elcio Abdalla

Two-dimensional (2D) superconductors, characterized by their inherent quantum confinement, strong spin-orbit coupling, and diverse forms of symmetry breaking, provide an ideal platform for exploring novel quantum transport phenomena. This…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-03-03 Xingrong Ren , Huiqing Ye , Tian Le

We propose that periodic driving can stabilize a new type of order, "period-doubled superconductivity", in which a superconducting order parameter oscillates at half the frequency of the drive. Despite having a zero time-averaged order…

Superconductivity · Physics 2022-09-14 Zhehao Dai , Vibhu Ravindran , Norman Y. Yao , Michael P. Zaletel

We present new solutions of warped compactifications in the higher-dimensional gravity coupled to the scalar and the form field strengths. These solutions are constructed in the D-dimensional spacetime with matter fields, with the internal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-15 Masato Minamitsuji , Kunihito Uzawa

In this article, we investigate the mathematical relationship between a (3+1) dimensional gravity model inside Anti-de Sitter space $\rm AdS_4$, and a (2+1) dimensional superconducting system on the asymptotically flat boundary of $\rm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-03 W. M. Wu , M. P. Pierpoint , D. M. Forrester , F. V. Kusmartsev

We argue that de Sitter universes with a small cosmological constant are entropically favored to have three spatial dimensions. The conclusion relies on the causal-patch description of de Sitter space, where fiducial observers experience…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Arshad Momen , Rakibur Rahman

We investigate de Sitter solutions of $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity with an F-term scalar potential near a no-scale Minkowski point, as they may in particular arise from flux compactifications in string theory. We show that a large class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-16 Daniel Junghans , Marco Zagermann

We construct a large new class of de Sitter (and anti de Sitter) vacua of critical string theory from flux compactifications on products of Riemann surfaces. In the construction, the leading effects stabilizing the moduli are perturbative.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex Saltman , Eva Silverstein

We propose that de-Sitter space-time originates from Gaussian distribution in a quantum harmonic oscillator system. This equation associates with a massless Klein-Gordon equation. We discover that every excited states of quantum oscillator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-01 Leihua Liu , Jiansen Zheng