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We introduce a simple generalization of the basic holographic superconductor model in which the spontaneous breaking of a global U(1) symmetry occurs via the Stueckelberg mechanism. This more general setting allows tuning features such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Sebastian Franco , Antonio Garcia-Garcia , Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We implement the effects of disorder on a holographic p-wave superconductor by introducing a random chemical potential which defines the local energy of the charge carriers. Since there are various possibilities for the orientation of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-06 Daniel Arean , Arya Farahi , Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Antonello Scardicchio

We study the p-wave holographic superconductor for AdS black holes with planar event horizon topology for a particular Lovelock gravity, in which the action is characterized by a self-interacting scalar field nonminimally coupled to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-24 Dan Wen , Hongwei Yu , Qiyuan Pan , Kai Lin , Wei-Liang Qian

We apply the soft wall holographic model from hadron physics to a description of the high-$T_c$ superconductivity. In comparison with the existing bottom-up holographic superconductors, the proposed approach is more phenomenological. On the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 S. S. Afonin , I. V. Pusenkov

Using a five dimensional AdS soliton in an Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with SU(2) gauge group we study p-wave holographic insulator/superconductor phase transition. To explore the phase structure of the model we consider the system in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Amin Akhavan , Mohsen Alishahiha

In the current work we study various models of holographic superconductors at low temperature. Generically the zero temperature limit of those models are solitonic solution with a zero sized horizon. Here we generalized simple version of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-17 Pallab Basu

We study holographic superconductors in the Schwarzschild-AdS black hole with a global monopole through a charged complex scalar field. We calculate the condensates of the charged operators in the dual conformal field theories (CFTs) and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Songbai Chen , Liancheng Wang , Chikun Ding , Jiliang Jing

The general Ginzburg-Landau formulation of a holographic superconductor is developed near the transition temperature in the probe limit for two kinds of conformal dimension. Below the transition temperature, $T<T_c$, the order-parameter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-22 Lei Yin , Defu Hou , Hai-cang Ren

Following a methodology similar to \cite{Alishahiha:2015rta}, we derive a holographic complexity for two dimensional holographic superconductors (gauge/string superconductors) with backreactions. Applying a perturbation method proposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-02 Davood Momeni , Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori , Ratbay Myrzakulov

We consider holographic superconductors whose bulk description consists of gravity minimally coupled to a Maxwell field and charged scalar field with general potential. We give an analytic argument that there is no "hard gap": the real part…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Gary T. Horowitz , Matthew M. Roberts

We investigate holographic s-wave superconductors with nonlinear arcsin-electrodynamics in the background of Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter black holes. The analytical Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problem is explored and we assume that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-21 S. I. Kruglov

Based on the Sturm-Liouville (SL) eigenvalue problem, we analytically study several properties of holographic $s$-wave superconductors with exponential nonlinear electrodynamics in the background of Schwarzschild anti-de Sitter (AdS) black…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-05 A. Sheykhi , F. Shaker

Holographic QCD is an extra-dimensional approach to modeling hadrons, the bound states of the strong interactions. In holographic models, the extra spatial dimension creates a waveguide for fields, and the discrete towers of modes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-21 Joshua Erlich

It is very interesting that all holographic superconductors, such as s-wave, p-wave and d-wave holographic superconductors, show the universal mean-field critical exponent 1/2 at the critical temperature, just like Gindzburg-Landau (G-L)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-30 Hua-Bi Zeng , Xin Gao , Yu Jiang , Hong-Shi Zong

We construct a $6$ derivative holographic superconductor model in the $4$-dimensional bulk spacetimes, in which the normal state describes a quantum critical (QC) phase. The phase diagram $(\gamma_1,\hat{T}_c)$ and the condensation as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-24 Jian-Pin Wu , Peng Liu

Using a simple analytic approach, we study the universal properties of second-order phase transition in holographic superconductor models. We explore a general model in arbitrary dimensions in which the condensation occurs via the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-03 Chiang-Mei Chen , Ming-Fan Wu

We study various physical quantities associated with holographic s-wave superconductors as functions of the scaling dimensions of the dual condensates. A bulk scalar field with negative mass squared $m^2$, satisfying the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 Obinna C. Umeh

In this paper, the properties of higher dimensional holographic superconductors are studied in the background of $f(R)$ gravity and Born-Infeld electrodynamics. A specific model of $f(R)$ gravity is considered, allowing a perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-26 Alexandar Roussev

We study a generalization of the standard holographic p-wave superconductor featuring two interacting vector order parameters. Basing our argument on the symmetry and linear response properties of the model, we propose it as a holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-12 Andrea Amoretti , Alessandro Braggio , Nicola Maggiore , Nicodemo Magnoli , Daniele Musso

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