Superconductors from Superstrings

Journal Article · Fri Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.103.141601· OSTI ID:21370710

Gubser, Steven S; Herzog, Christopher P; Pufu, Silviu S; Tesileanu, Tiberiu ^[1]

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1. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)

We establish that in a large class of strongly coupled (3+1)-dimensional N=1 quiver conformal field theories with gravity duals, adding a chemical potential for the R charge leads to the existence of superfluid states in which a chiral primary operator of the schematic form O=lambdalambda+W condenses. Here lambda is a gluino and W is the superpotential. Our argument is based on the construction of a consistent truncation of type IIB supergravity that includes a U(1) gauge field and a complex scalar.

• OSTI ID: 21370710
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 103, Issue 14; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.141601; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
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CONFORMAL INVARIANCE
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
GAUGE INVARIANCE
GRAVITATION
POTENTIALS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
SUPERCONDUCTORS
SUPERFLUIDITY
SUPERGRAVITY
SUPERSTRING MODELS
U-1 GROUPS
COMPOSITE MODELS
EXTENDED PARTICLE MODEL
FIELD THEORIES
INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES
LIE GROUPS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
PARTICLE MODELS
PARTICLE PROPERTIES
QUARK MODEL
STRING MODELS
SYMMETRY GROUPS
U GROUPS
UNIFIED-FIELD THEORIES