Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2010.
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2011
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| author | Grabowska, Dorota M |
| author2 | Allan Adams. |
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| description | Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2010. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/612052019-04-12T09:20:23Z Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates Grabowska, Dorota M Allan Adams. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics. Physics. Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2010. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 51). Holography is a novel approach to modeling strongly interacting many-body systems. By reorganizing the quantum many-body problem into an equivalent problem in classical gravity, holography makes it relatively easy, for example, to study linear response and compute transport coefficients. These techniques have recently been used to build toy models of superconductivity known as "Holographic Superconductors". In this thesis, we will be applying these same holographic principles to a strongly-interacting superconducting system in which multiple condensates compete. In the gravitational description, our system begins with two non-interacting Abelian Higgs multiplets, each comprised of a vector and a charged scalar. This describes a system with two independent condensates. Coupling the scalars via a quartic interaction induces a competition between the two condensates, with a condensate of one operator suppressing or enhancing the other depending on the sign of the coupling. by Dorota M. Grabowska. S.B. 2011-02-23T14:29:18Z 2011-02-23T14:29:18Z 2010 2010 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61205 701107276 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 51 p. application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Physics. Grabowska, Dorota M Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title | Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title_full | Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title_fullStr | Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title_full_unstemmed | Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title_short | Holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| title_sort | holographic superconductor with multiple competing condensates |
| topic | Physics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61205 |
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