{
  "id": "0805.2960",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2008-05-19T19:52:27.000Z",
  "updated": "2008-08-28T21:29:57.000Z",
  "title": "The gravity dual of a p-wave superconductor",
  "authors": [
    "Steven S. Gubser",
    "Silviu S. Pufu"
  ],
  "comment": "39 pages, 7 figures. v2: added discussion of conductivity matrix and made minor changes",
  "journal": "JHEP 0811:033,2008",
  "doi": "10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/033",
  "categories": [
    "hep-th"
  ],
  "abstract": "We construct black hole solutions to the Yang-Mills equations in an AdS_4-Schwarzschild background which exhibit superconductivity. What makes these backgrounds p-wave superconductors is that the order parameter is a vector, and the conductivities are strongly anisotropic in a manner that is suggestive of a gap with nodes. The low-lying excitations of the normal state have a relaxation time which grows rapidly as the temperature decreases, consistent with the absence of impurity scattering. A numerical exploration of quasinormal modes close to the transition temperature suggests that p-wave backgrounds are stable against perturbations analogous to turning on a p+ip gap, whereas p+ip-wave configurations are unstable against turning into pure p-wave backgrounds.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2008-08-28T21:29:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "gravity dual",
      "construct black hole solutions",
      "pure p-wave backgrounds",
      "quasinormal modes close",
      "backgrounds p-wave superconductors"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article",
      "famous paper"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "IOP",
      "journal": "Journal of High Energy Physics",
      "year": 2008,
      "month": "Nov",
      "volume": 2008,
      "number": 11,
      "pages": "033"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 39,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 786229,
      "adsabs": "2008JHEP...11..033G"
    }
  }
}