Analytic holographic superconductor

Christopher P. Herzog

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.81.126009

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Analytic holographic superconductor

Christopher P. Herzog

DOI 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.126009 · Physical Review D

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Abstract

We investigate a holographic superconductor that admits an analytic treatment near the phase transition. In the dual 3+1-dimensional field theory, the phase transition occurs when a scalar operator of scaling dimension two gets a vacuum expectation value. We calculate current-current correlation functions along with the speed of second sound near the critical temperature. We also make some remarks about critical exponents. An analytic treatment is possible because an underlying Heun equation describing the zero mode of the phase transition has a polynomial solution. Amusingly, the treatment here may generalize for an order parameter with any integer spin, and we propose a Lagrangian for a spin-two holographic superconductor.