Magnetic response in the holographic insulator/superconductor transition
Magnetic response in the holographic insulator/superconductor transition
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DOI:
10.1007/jhep04(2012)135
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发表时间:
2012-04
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5.4
通讯作者:
M. Montull;O. Pujolàs;A. Salvio;Pedro J. Silva
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作者:
M. Montull;O. Pujolàs;A. Salvio;Pedro J. Silva
We study the magnetic response of holographic superconductors exhibiting an insulating ‘normal’phase. These materials can be realized as a CFT compactified on a circle, which is dual to the AdS Soliton geometry. We study the response under i) magnetic fields and ii) a Wilson line on the circle. Magnetic fields lead to formation of vortices and allows one to infer that the superconductor is of type II. The response to a Wilson line is in the form of Aharonov-Bohm-like effects. These are suppressed in the holographic conductor/superconductor transition but, instead, they are unsuppressed for the insulator case. Holography, thus, predicts that generically insulators display stronger Aharonov-Bohm effects than conductors. In the fluid-mechanical limit the AdS Soliton is interpreted as a supersolid. Our results imply that supersolids display unsuppressed Aharonov-Bohm (or ‘Sagnac’) effects—stronger than in superfluids.