22 research outputs found
The Rich Structure of Gauss-Bonnet Holographic Superconductors
We study fully backreacting, Gauss-Bonnet (GB) holographic superconductors in
5 bulk spacetime dimensions. We explore the system's dependence on the scalar
mass for both positive and negative GB coupling, . We find that when
the mass approaches the Breitenlohner-Freedman (BF) bound and
the effect of backreaction is to increase the
critical temperature, , of the system: the opposite of its effect in the
rest of parameter space. We also find that reducing below zero
increases and that the effect of backreaction is diminished. We study the
zero temperature limit, proving that this system does not permit regular
solutions for a non-trivial, tachyonic scalar field and constrain possible
solutions for fields with positive masses. We investigate singular, zero
temperature solutions in the Einstein limit but find them to be incompatible
with the concept of GB gravity being a perturbative expansion of Einstein
gravity. We study the conductivity of the system, finding that the inclusion of
backreaction hinders the development of poles in the conductivity that are
associated with quasi-normal modes approaching the real axis from elsewhere in
the complex plane.Comment: 26 pages, 11 figures, V3, Added discussion of non-tachyonic scalars,
alterations to figures and tex
Bosonic excitations of the AdS4 Reissner-Nordstrom black hole
We study the long-lived modes of the charge density and energy density
correlators in the strongly-coupled, finite density field theory dual to the
AdS4 Reissner-Nordstrom black hole. For small momenta q<<\mu, these correlators
contain a pole due to sound propagation, as well as a pole due to a long-lived,
purely imaginary mode analogous to the \mu=0 hydrodynamic charge diffusion
mode. As the temperature is raised in the range T\lesssim\mu, the sound
attenuation shows no significant temperature dependence. When T\gtrsim\mu, it
quickly approaches the \mu=0 hydrodynamic result where it decreases like 1/T.
It does not share any of the temperature-dependent properties of the 'zero
sound' of Landau Fermi liquids observed in the strongly-coupled D3/D7 field
theory. For such small momenta, the energy density spectral function is
dominated by the sound mode at all temperatures, whereas the charge density
spectral function undergoes a crossover from being dominated by the sound mode
at low temperatures to being dominated by the diffusion mode when T \mu^2/q.
This crossover occurs due to the changing residue at each pole. We also compute
the momentum dependence of these spectral functions and their corresponding
long-lived poles at fixed, low temperatures T<<\mu.Comment: 33 pages, 21 figures, 6 animation
Holographic Brownian Motion in Magnetic Environments
Using the gauge/gravity correspondence, we study the dynamics of a heavy
quark in two strongly-coupled systems at finite temperature: Super-Yang-Mills
in the presence of a magnetic field and non-commutative Super-Yang-Mills. In
the former, our results agree qualitatively with the expected behavior from
weakly-coupled theories. In the latter, we propose a Langevin equation that
accounts for the effects of non-commutativity and we find new interesting
features. The equation resembles the structure of Brownian motion in the
presence of a magnetic field and implies that the fluctuations along
non-commutative directions are correlated. Moreover, our results show that the
viscosity is smaller than the commutative case and that the diffusion
properties of the quark are unaffected by non-commutativity. Finally, we
compute the random force autocorrelator and verify that the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem holds in the presence of non-commutativity.Comment: 34 pages. v2: typos corrected. v3: title and abstract slightly
modified in order to better reflect the contents of the paper; footnote 3 and
one reference were also added; version accepted for publication in JHE
Holographic zero sound at finite temperature in the Sakai-Sugimoto model
In this paper, we study the fate of the holographic zero sound mode at finite
temperature and non-zero baryon density in the deconfined phase of the
Sakai-Sugimoto model of holographic QCD. We establish the existence of such a
mode for a wide range of temperatures and investigate the dispersion relation,
quasi-normal modes, and spectral functions of the collective excitations in
four different regimes, namely, the collisionless quantum, collisionless
thermal, and two distinct hydrodynamic regimes. For sufficiently high
temperatures, the zero sound completely disappears, and the low energy physics
is dominated by an emergent diffusive mode. We compare our findings to
Landau-Fermi liquid theory and to other holographic models.Comment: 1+24 pages, 19 figures, PDFTeX, v2: some comments and references
added, v3: some clarifications relating to the different regimes added,
matches version accepted for publication in JHEP, v4: corrected typo in eq.
(3.18
Spectral function of the supersymmetry current
We continue our study of the retarded Green's function of the universal
fermionic supersymmetry current ("supercurrent") for the most general class of
d=3 N=2 SCFTs with D=10 or D=11 supergravity duals by studying the propagation
of the Dirac gravitino in the electrically charged AdS-Reissner-Nordstr\"om
black-brane background of N=2 minimal gauged supergravity in D=4. We expand
upon results presented in a companion paper, including the absence of a Fermi
surface and the appearance of a soft power-law gap at zero temperature. We also
present the analytic solution of the gravitino equation in the AdS_2 X R^2
background which arises as the near-horizon limit at zero temperature. In
addition we determine the quasinormal mode spectrum.Comment: 65 pages, 6 Figs; version published in journa