2021/01/31 by Zhi-Hong Li, Hua-Bi Zeng, Hai-Qing Zhang · 11 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Classical mechanics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Dissipation #Geometry #Gravitation #Graviton #Momentum (technical analysis) #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #Scaling #Theoretical physics #Topological defect #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep04(2021)295
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2021(4) (Springer Nature) · 18 pages, 4 figures, accepted by JHEP
openalex publication_date 2021/04/01 · arxiv created 2021/04/05 · arxiv updated 2021/05/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
A bstract We employ holographic techniques to explore the effects of momentum dissipation on the formation of topological defects during the critical dynamics of a strongly coupled superconductor after a linear quench of temperature. The gravity dual is the dRGT massive gravity in which the conservation of momentum in the boundary field theory is broken by the presence of a bulk graviton mass. From the scaling relations of defects number and “freeze-out” time to the quench rate for various graviton masses, we demonstrate that the momentum dissipation induced by graviton mass has little effect on the scaling laws compared to the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Inspired from Pippard’s formula in condensed matter, we propose an analytic relation between the coherence length and the graviton mass, which agrees well with the numerical results from the quasi-normal modes analysis. As a result, the coherence length decreases with respect to the graviton mass, which indicates that the momentum dissipation will augment the number of topological defects.