Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid
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...
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| author | Adams, Allan Wang, Juven |
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| description | 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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| spelling | mit-1721.1/705332022-09-29T18:43:39Z Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid Adams, Allan Wang, Juven Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics Adams, Allan Adams, Allan Wang, Juven 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. United States. Dept. of Energy (cooperative research agreement DE-FG0205ER41360) 2012-05-07T19:45:07Z 2012-05-07T19:45:07Z 2011-11 2011-05 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1367-2630 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70533 Adams, Allan, and Juven Wang. “Towards a Non-relativistic Holographic Superfluid.” New Journal of Physics 13.11 (2011): 115008. Web. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-3395 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0421-4818 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/13/11/115008 New Journal of Physics Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ application/pdf Institute of Physics Publishing New Journal of Physics |
| spellingShingle | Adams, Allan Wang, Juven Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title | Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title_full | Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title_fullStr | Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title_short | Towards a non-relativistic holographic superfluid |
| title_sort | towards a non relativistic holographic superfluid |
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