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Holographic Superconductors

Holographic Superconductors. Jiunn-Wei Chen (NTU) w/ Ying-Jer Kao, Yu-Sheng Liu, Debaprasad Maity, Wen-Yu Wen and Chen-Pin Yeh (talk largely based on Wen’s slides). Holography. Holograms NMR 3d information encoded on 2d surfaces Finite resolution helps.

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Holographic Superconductors

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  1. Holographic Superconductors Jiunn-Wei Chen (NTU) w/ Ying-Jer Kao, Yu-Sheng Liu, Debaprasad Maity, Wen-Yu Wen and Chen-Pin Yeh (talk largely based on Wen’s slides)

  2. Holography • Holograms • NMR 3d information encoded on 2d surfaces Finite resolution helps.

  3. Can this Universe a giant hologram? Black hole entropy scales as the surface of the horizon. Information upper bound scales as the surface of the system as well?

  4. AdS/CFT Correspondence(Maldacena, 98) • 4 dim gauge field theory (SYM) is equivalent to a 10 dim (AdS_5 x S_5) string theory--- a holography and a strong-weak interaction dual!

  5. x’ x Some observations Flat D-dimensional CFT Conformal symmetry SO(D,2) z (D+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter Isometry SO(D,2) IR (□-m2)Φ(x,r)=0 m2 = Δ(Δ-D) (Witten,98) UV Operator O(x) of dimension Δ <O(x)O(x’)> = |x-x’|-2Δ Imagine a string stretching in between, we obtain Coulomb potential for attractive force V~1/|x-x’| (Maldacena,98) Lesson (AdS/CFT correspondence): Interaction could be encoded into geometry

  6. More surprise to come Gravity: (Soft/hard) cut-off induces confinement z (Karch-Katz-Son-Stephanov,06) Linear potential for long string Field Theory: Modify InfraRed physics Lesson 3 (AdS/ ? correspondence): Interesting physics could appear while away from AdS/CFT The proof? Top down vs. bottom up

  7. Applied String Theory: strongly coupled system with approximate scaling symmetry • Quark Gluon Plasma (RHIC) Drag force Jet Quenching η/s • QCD Confinement/deconfinement Gluon scattering Baryon/Hadron • Quantum critical point • Superfluidity • High-Tc superconductivity (1911 discovered, 1950 GL, 1957 BCS, 1986 HTSC)

  8. Today’s goals • Goal #1A minimum gravity model for HTSC • Goal #2Fermionic spectral function of HTSC • Goal #3 From S-wave to D-wave SC’s

  9. Superconductors • BCS theory: electron-electron pairing through phonon exchange; not enough for HTSC • Ginzburg-Landau theory: low energy effective theory; breaking the (local) U(1) symmetry spontaneously---massive EM fields (Higgs mechanism)

  10. Holographic Superconductors • Minimum model: Breaking the U(1) symmetry spontaneously [local U(1) in the “bulk”, global U(1) at the boundary] • Essential ingredients: Finite temperature T Chemical potential μ Condensate φ (same quantum number as a fermion pair) (3+1) Gravity model (2+1) HTSC

  11. Finite temperature • TH~ horizon size, large black hole is stable • HTSC is in thermal equilibrium with black hole at Hawking temperature TH Hawking radiation Small T Large T T=0

  12. ﹣ Er ﹢ ﹣ ﹢ ﹢ ﹣ ﹢ ﹢ ﹢ ﹣ ﹣ ﹣ Finite chemical potential • Place electric field along radius direction, particles with opposite charges will accumulate on boundary and horizon, giving a charged balck hole • Voltage established between them can be interpretated as chemical potential (q)μ,which is the work done by moving a unit charge from horizon to boundary.

  13. Condensate • φfield is in balance between two competing forces: gravitational attraction and electric repulsion.

  14. When black hole is too heavy (high T), φ will fall into the horizon. (normal state) • When black hole is not so heavy (low T), φ safely stays outside the horizon and forms a condensate. (superconducting state) N phase SC phase No hair Hairy black hole =φ

  15. Tc[Hartnoll,Herzog,Horowitz, 08] Bosonic condensation Fermionic condensation strongly correlated? usual BCS ~ 3.5

  16. Hc [Nakano,Wen,Phys.Rev.D78 (08)]

  17. Goal #2: Fermionic spectral function of HTSC---measurable experimentally

  18. More story…

  19. Summary The gap we found in the s-wave superconductor is “soft”. p-wave superconductor appears to have a hard gap at zero temperature

  20. Towards a holographic model of D-wave superconductors(JWC, Kao, Maity, Wen, Yeh) • At the boundary (field theory side), we need a symmetric traceless 2nd rank tensor to form the condensate. • In the bulk, we higged a symmetric traceless 2nd rank tensor. • However, we have more components than we want and some of them are unstable---a remaining problem • Condensate vs T and DC, AC conductivitives worked out nicely.

  21. Fermi arcs in d-wave superconductors(Benini, Herzog, and Yarom)

  22. Fermi arcs in d+id superconductors(JWC, Liu, Maity)

  23. Normal and Hall conductivity

  24. Prospects • Fermi arcs: in the pseugap phase not SC phase • D-wave: stability (a hard problem) • phase diagrams; quantum critical point (Sachdev, Liu, etc.) and insulator-superconductor phase transition (Takayanagi et al.) • microscopic mechanism

  25. Thank You

  26. A practical thing to do I should learn more condensed matter BCS-BECGraphene…

  27. Abelian Higgs model in AdS black holea.k.a hairy black hole solution • Ginzburg-Landau feels curvature from AdS-BH • AdS-BH metrics receives no back reaction from GL sector. (probe limit) AdS-BH T increases with BH mass GL A: abelian gauge field U(1) φ: Higgs Mass term has no explicit T dependence V has no other higher order term

  28. State-Operator correspondence: Scalar field (Higgs) with mass m AdS bulk x Boundary QFT Operator of dimension Δ

  29. Time component gauge potential encodes the message of chemical potential and charge density at the boundary AdS Bulk Boundary QFT

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