2010/07/31 by Gary T. Horowitz, Benson Way · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Critical phenomena #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Gravitation #Holography #Phase diagram #Phase transition #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep11(2010)011
published as JHEP 1011:011,2010 · 19 pages; v2: references added
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The gravitational dual of an insulator/superconductor transition driven by increasing the chemical potential has recently been constructed. However, the system was studied in a probe limit and only a part of the phase diagram was obtained. We include the backreaction and construct the complete phase diagram for this system. For fixed chemical potential there are typically two phase transitions as the temperature is lowered. Surprisingly, for a certain range of parameters, the system first becomes a superconductor and then becomes an insulator as the temperature approaches zero. As a byproduct of our analysis, we also construct the gravitational dual of a Bose-Einstein condensate of glueballs in a confining gauge theory.