The Holographic Disorder-Driven Superconductor-Metal Transition

Abstract

We implement the effects of disorder on a holographic superconductor by introducing a random chemical potential on the boundary. We demonstrate explicitly that increasing disorder leads to the formation of islands where the superconducting order is enhanced and subsequently to the transition to a metal. We study the behavior of the superfluid density and of the conductivity as a function of the strength of disorder. We find explanations for various marked features in the conductivities in terms of hydrodynamic quasi-normal modes of the holographic superconductors. These identifications plus a particular disorder-dependent spectral weight shift in the conductivity point to a signature of the Higgs mode in the context of disordered holographic superconductors. We observe that the behavior of the order parameter close to the transition is not mean-field type as in the clean case, rather we find robust agreement with $\exp (-A|T-T_c{|}^{-\nu })$, with $\nu =1.03\pm 0.02$ for this disorder-driven smeared transition.

7 pages, 8 figures. v2: minor improvements of the Higgs mode and smeared phase transition discussions. Typos corrected. Published version

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