Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid
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Adams, Allan
Wang, Juven
Date Issued
November 2011
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New Journal of Physics
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Institute of Physics Publishing
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Adams, Allan, and Juven Wang. “Towards a Non-relativistic Holographic Superfluid.” New Journal of Physics 13.11 (2011): 115008. Web.
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Abstract
We explore the phase structure of a holographic toy model of superfluid states in non-relativistic conformal field theories. At low background mass density, we found a familiar second-order transition to a superfluid phase at finite temperature. Increasing the chemical potential for the probe charge density drives this transition strongly first order as the low-temperature superfluid phase merges with a thermodynamically disfavored high-temperature condensed phase. At high background mass density, the system re-enters the normal phase as the temperature is lowered further, hinting at a zero-temperature quantum phase transition as the background density is varied. Given the unusual thermodynamics of the background black hole, however, it seems likely that the true ground state is another configuration altogether.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/11/115008
