Toward a Holographic Model of Superconducting Fermions
| dc.creator | O'Bannon, Andy | |
| dc.date | 2008-11-02 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T12:39:13Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T12:39:13Z | |
| dc.description | We use the AdS/CFT correspondence to study N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory, in the limits of large Nc and large 't Hooft coupling, coupled to a number Nf of massless hypermultiplet fields in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. We identify a U(1) subgroup of the R-symmetry under which the fermions in the hypermultiplet are charged but the scalars are not. All the hypermultiplet fields are also charged under a U(1) baryon number symmetry. We introduce an external magnetic field for the baryon number U(1), which triggers the spontaneous breaking of the U(1) R-symmetry, and we then introduce a chemical potential for the U(1) R-charge, producing a state with a nonzero density of the U(1) R-charge. The system should then exhibit superconductivity of the U(1) R-charge. The dual supergravity description is a number Nf of D7-branes in AdS5 x S5 with angular momentum on the S5 and a worldvolume magnetic field. We study the zero-temperature thermodynamics of the system, and find that for sufficiently large magnetic field the system prefers to be in the symmetry-broken phase. For smaller magnetic fields we find a discontinuous free energy, indicating that our gravitational setup does not capture all equilibrium states of the field theory. | |
| dc.description | 32 pages, 22 eps files in 9 figures | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0198 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.0198 | |
| dc.identifier | JHEP 0901:074,2009 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/01/074 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/219029 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Theory | |
| dc.title | Toward a Holographic Model of Superconducting Fermions | |
| dc.type | text |