Superconductors from superstrings

Steven S. Gubser; Christopher P. Herzog; Silviu S. Pufu; Tiberiu Tesileanu

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.141601

Superconductors from superstrings

Steven S. Gubser, Christopher P. Herzog, Silviu S. Pufu, Tiberiu Tesileanu

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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=λλ+W condenses. Here λ 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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	141601
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	103
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.141601
State	Published - Sep 28 2009

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