Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2009-03-10
JHEP 0910:067,2009
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
23 pages, 22 figures. v2: small corrections and section about dynamical mass generation revised
Scientific paper
10.1088/1126-6708/2009/10/067
We give a detailed account and extensions of a holographic flavor superconductivity model which we have proposed recently. The model has an explicit field theory realization as strongly coupled N=2 Super Yang-Mills theory with fundamental matter at finite temperature and finite isospin chemical potential. Using gauge/gravity duality, i.e. a probe of two flavor D7-branes in the AdS black hole background, we show that the system undergoes a second order phase transition with critical exponent 1/2. The new ground state may be interpreted as a rho meson superfluid. It shows signatures known from superconductivity, such as an infinite dc conductivity and a gap in the frequency-dependent conductivity. We present a stringy picture of the condensation mechanism in terms of a recombination of strings. We give a detailed account of the evaluation of the non-Abelian Dirac-Born-Infeld action involved using two different methods. Finally we also consider the case of massive flavors and discuss the holographic Meissner-Ochsenfeld effect in our scenario.
Ammon Martin
Erdmenger Johanna
Kaminski Matthias
Kerner Patrick
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