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hep-th2013★ 12 cited

Possible Anderson localization in a holographic superconductor

Hua Bi Zeng

We study the effect of disorder in a holographic superconductor by introducing a quasi-periodic chemical potential. When the condensation of the superconductor is sufficiently smal…

hep-th2013★ 33 cited

A thermal quench induces spatial inhomogeneities in a holographic superconductor

Antonio M. García-García, Hua Bi Zeng, Hai Qing Zhang

Holographic duality is a powerful tool to investigate the far-from equilibrium dynamics of superfluids and other phases of quantum matter. For technical reasons it is usually assum…

hep-th2013★ 17 cited

A holographic model of SQUID

Rong-Gen Cai, Yong-Qiang Wang, Hai-Qing Zhang

We construct a holographic model of superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) in the Einstein-Maxwell-complex scalar theory with a negative cosmological constant. The SQU…

hep-th2013★ 16 cited

Mimic the optical conductivity in disordered solids via gauge/gravity duality

Jia-Rui Sun, Shang-Yu Wu, Hai-Qing Zhang

We study the optical conductivity in a (2+1)-dimensional non-relativistic field theory holographically dual to a (3+1)-dimensional charged Lifshitz black brane with the Einstein-Ma…

hep-th2013★ 10 cited

Deconfinement transition and Black Holes

Antonino Flachi

In this paper we propose an effective description of the transition to deconfinement in the vicinity of a black hole. For this we adapt the approach that uses the dual quark conden…

hep-th2013★ 7 cited

Charged black rings from inverse scattering

Jorge V. Rocha, Maria J. Rodriguez, Oscar Varela +1

The inverse scattering method of Belinsky and Zakharov is a powerful method to construct solutions of vacuum Einstein equations. In particular, in five dimensions this method has b…

hep-th2013★ 7 cited

Infrared Behavior of Scalar Condensates in Effective Holographic Theories

Mariano Cadoni, Paolo Pani, Matteo Serra

We investigate the infrared behavior of the spectrum of scalar-dressed, asymptotically Anti de Sitter (AdS) black brane (BB) solutions of effective holographic models. These soluti…

hep-th2013★ 14 cited

Dual Fermion Condensates in Curved Space

Antonino Flachi

In this paper we compute the effective action at finite temperature and density for the dual fermion condensate in curved space with the fermions described by an effective field th…

hep-th2013★ 38 cited

Strongly Interacting Fermions and Phases of the Casimir Effect

Antonino Flachi

With the intent of exploring how the interplay between boundary effects and chiral symmetry breaking may alter the thermodynamical behavior of a system of strongly interacting ferm…

hep-th2013★ 18 cited

Novel Features of the Transport Coefficients in Lifshitz Black Branes

Jia-Rui Sun, Shang-Yu Wu, Hai-Qing Zhang

We study the transport coefficients, including the conductivities and shear viscosity of the non-relativistic field theory dual to the Lifshitz black brane with multiple U(1) gauge…

hep-th2012★ 22 cited

Extremal black brane solutions in five-dimensional gauged supergravity

Susanne Barisch-Dick, Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Michael Haack +1

We study stationary black brane solutions in the context of N = 2, U(1) gauged supergravity in five dimensions. Using the formalism of first-order flow equations, we construct exam…

hep-th2012★ 34 cited

Interacting Fermions, Boundaries, and Finite Size Effects

Antonino Flachi

In this work we analyze how effects of finite size may modify the thermodynamics of a system of strongly interacting fermions that we model using an effective field theory with fou…

hep-th2012★ 8 cited

Non-holomorphic deformations of special geometry and their applications

Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Bernard de Wit, Swapna Mahapatra

The aim of these lecture notes is to give a pedagogical introduction to the subject of non-holomorphic deformations of special geometry. This subject was first introduced in the co…

hep-th2012★ 14 cited

An electrically charged doubly spinning dipole black ring

Jorge V. Rocha, Maria J. Rodriguez, Oscar Varela

We present a new asymptotically flat, doubly spinning black ring of D = 5 Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with Kaluza-Klein dilaton coupling. Besides the mass and two angular momen…

hep-th2012★ 61 cited

NR/HEP: roadmap for the future

Vitor Cardoso, Leonardo Gualtieri, Carlos Herdeiro +29

Physics in curved spacetime describes a multitude of phenomena, ranging from astrophysics to high energy physics. The last few years have witnessed further progress on several fron…

hep-th2011★ 19 cited

A Holographic Model of Strange Metals

Bum-Hoon Lee, Da-Wei Pang, Chanyong Park

We give a review on our recent work arXiv:1006.0779 [hep-th] and arXiv:1006.1719 [hep-th], in which properties of holographic strange metals were investigated. The background is ch…

hep-th2011★ 12 cited

Holographic DC conductivities from the open string metric

Keun-Young Kim, Da-Wei Pang

We study the DC conductivities of various holographic models using the open string metric (OSM), which is an effective metric geometrizing density and electromagnetic field effect.…

hep-th2011★ 17 cited

Inverse Scattering Construction of a Dipole Black Ring

Jorge V. Rocha, Maria J. Rodriguez, Amitabh Virmani

Using the inverse scattering method in six dimensions we construct the dipole black ring of five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with dilaton coupling a = 2(2/3)^(1/2).…

hep-th2011★ 54 cited

Nernst branes in gauged supergravity

Susanne Barisch, Gabriel Lopes Cardoso, Michael Haack +2

We study static black brane solutions in the context of N = 2 U(1) gauged supergravity in four dimensions. Using the formalism of first-order flow equations, we construct novel ext…

hep-th2011★ 12 cited

Holographic charge transport in Lifshitz black hole backgrounds

José P. S. Lemos, Da-Wei Pang

We study charge transport properties in a domain-wall geometry, whose near horizon IR geometry is a Lifshitz black hole and whose UV geometry is AdS. The action for the gauge field…

hep-th2011★ 22 cited

Holography of Charged Black Holes with Corrections

Rong-Gen Cai, Da-Wei Pang

We investigate several holographic properties of charged black holes with corrections, which originate from Kaluza-Klein reductions of five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravit…

hep-th2009★ 78 cited

A holographic approach to phase transitions

Sebastian Franco, Antonio M. Garcia-Garcia, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We provide a description of phase transitions at finite temperature in strongly coupled field theories using holography. For this purpose, we introduce a general class of gravity d…

hep-th2009★ 84 cited

A general class of holographic superconductors

Sebastian Franco, Antonio Garcia-Garcia, Diego Rodriguez-Gomez

We introduce a simple generalization of the basic holographic superconductor model in which the spontaneous breaking of a global U(1) symmetry occurs via the Stueckelberg mechanism…

hep-th2007★ 15 cited

Type II and heterotic one loop string effective actions in four dimensions

Filipe Moura

We analyze the reduction to four dimensions of the R^4 terms which are part of the ten-dimensional string effective actions, both at tree level and one loop. We show that there are…