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hep-th2026

Universal fingerprint of topological defect cores

Zi-Qiang Zhao, Nayun Jia, Zhang-Yu Nie +3

Topological defects are ubiquitous in physics, arising from condensed matter physics to the early universe. Although there exist many universal scaling laws for correlations betwee…

hep-th2026

Holographic SU(3) color superconductivity at finite baryon chemical potential

Xin Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Ya-Peng Hu

We present a holographic model of SU(3) color superconductivity (CSC) where a global color symmetry is spontaneously broken by a diquark condensate at finite baryon chemical potent…

hep-th2026

Holographic s+p superconductors with nonlinear electrodynamics

Ru-Qing Chen, Hui Zeng, Zhang-Yu Nie

We investigate a holographic s+p superconductor model coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics in the probe limit. The equations of motion are solved numerically, and the condensates a…

hep-th2026

Phase separation seeded by Z2 and U(1) topological defects from holography

Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Jing-Fei Zhang +1

We study the interaction between spontaneous symmetry breaking and phase separation dynamics in holography. Using a double-quench protocol, the system first rapidly crosses the cri…

hep-th2026

Topological defect induced phase separation in a holographic system

Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Jing-Fei Zhang +1

We investigate the coupled dynamics of symmetry breaking and phase separation during quenches across the critical point in a first-order phase transition. Based on the Einstein-Max…

hep-th2025

Various phase transitions in a holographic p-wave superfluid model with nonlinear terms

Yue-Peng Wang, Zi-Qiang Zhao, Hui Zeng +1

This study investigates various phase transitions, including those of 2nd, 1st, and 0th order, in a holographic p-wave superfluid model incorporating 4th- and 6th-order nonlinear t…

hep-th2025

Holographic s+p superconductors with axion induced translation symmetry breaking

Ru-Qing Chen, Hui Zeng, Zhang-Yu Nie +1

We construct a holographic model for an s+p superconductor with axion-induced translation symmetry breaking within the framework of gauge/gravity duality, working in the probe limi…

hep-th2025★ 5 cited

Interior structure of the holographic s + p superconductor and chaotic-stable transition near the black hole singularity

Xing-Kun Zhang, Xin Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie +2

In this work, we investigate the interior structure of a holographic multi-band superconductor with the coexistence of s-wave and p-wave order parameters. Especially, we investigat…

hep-th2025★ 2 cited

Phase transitions in a holographic s+d model from the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Ting-Rui Liao, Xin Zhao, Hui Zeng +1

In this work, the phase structure of a holographic s+d model with quartic potential terms from the 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is studied in the probe limit. We first show the…

hep-th2024★ 10 cited

Diving into a holographic multi-band superconductor

Xing-Kun Zhang, Xin Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie +2

In this work, we investigate the interior structure of a holographic multi-band superconductor model. We focus on the holographic superconductor system with two scalar fields which…

hep-th2024

The local thermodynamic instability from negative susceptibility in a holographic superfluid with nonlinear terms

Yu-Xiang Cao, Hui Zeng, Zhang-Yu Nie

The local thermodynamic stability from the charge susceptibility of a holographic superfluid model at finite superfluid velocity is studied in the probe limit. Previous studies sho…

hep-th2024★ 9 cited

Dynamical and thermodynamic crossovers in the supercritical region of a holographic superfluid model

Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie, Jing-Fei Zhang +2

Many physical systems, including classical fluids, present in their phase diagram the competition between two phases that are separated by a line of first-order phase transitions w…

hep-th2023★ 15 cited

Dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in holographic superfluids

Xin Zhao, Zi-Qiang Zhao, Zhang-Yu Nie +3

We study the nonlinear dynamical evolution of spinodal decomposition in a first-order superfluid phase transition using a simple holographic model in the probe limit. We first conf…

hep-th2023★ 1 cited

The holographic s+p model in 4D and 5D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Xing-Kun Zhang, Zhang-Yu Nie, Hui Zeng +1

We study the holographic s+p model in both four dimensional (4D) and five dimensional (5D) Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (EGB) gravity. We first show a phase diagram with the Gauss-Bonnet…

hep-th2022★ 14 cited

Dynamical stability from quasi normal modes in 2nd, 1st and 0th order holographic superfluid phase transitions

Zi-Qiang Zhao, Xing-Kun Zhang, Zhang-Yu Nie

We study a simple extension of the original Hartnoll, Herzog and Horowitz (HHH) holographic superfluid model with two nonlinear scalar self-interaction terms and …

hep-th2021★ 3 cited

H-T phase diagrams of a holographic p-wave superfluid

Yu-Ni Yang, Chuan-Yin Xia, Zhang-Yu Nie +1

We study the competition between the p-wave and the p+ip superfluid solutions in a holographic model with applied magnetic field intensity . We find that when is turned on,…

hep-th2021★ 10 cited

Holographic superconductors in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with backreactions

Jie Pan, Xiongying Qiao, Dong Wang +3

We construct the holographic superconductors away from the probe limit in the consistent Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We observe that, both for the ground state a…

hep-th2021★ 9 cited

Holographic multi-condensate with nonlinear terms

Xing-Kun Zhang, Chuan-Yin Xia, Zhang-Yu Nie +1

We study the influence of nonlinear terms quartic of the charged fields, which do not change the critical points of single condensate solutions, on the phase structure of a hologra…

hep-th2021★ 7 cited

Uniform quenching processes in a holographic s+p model with reentrance

Chuan-Yin Xia, Zhang-Yu Nie, Hua-Bi Zeng +1

We study the homogenous quenching processes in a holographic s+p model with reentrant phase transitions. We first realize the reentrant phase transition in the holographic model in…

hep-th2020★ 25 cited

Holographic superconductors in 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Xiongying Qiao, Liang OuYang, Dong Wang +2

We investigate the neutral AdS black-hole solution in the consistent Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity proposed in [K. Aoki, M.A. Gorji, and S. Mukohyama, Phys. Lett. B…

hep-th2020★ 12 cited

The holographic p+ip solution failed to win the competition in dRGT massive gravity

Zhang-Yu Nie, Ya-Peng Hu, Hui Zeng

In this paper, the holographic p-wave superfluid model with charged complex vector field is studied in dRGT massive gravity beyond the probe limit. The stability of p-wave and p+ip…

hep-th2020★ 19 cited

Holographic boiling and generalized thermodynamic description beyond local equilibrium

Xin Li, Zhang-Yu Nie, Yu Tian

Tuning a very simple two-component holographic superfluid model, we can have a first order phase transition between two superfluid phases in the probe limit. Inspired by the potent…

hep-th2019★ 28 cited

Vortex Lattice in a Rotating Holographic Superfluid

Chuan-Yin Xia, Hua-Bi Zeng, Hai-Qing Zhang +3

By utilizing the AdS/CFT correspondence, we explore the dynamics of strongly coupled superfluid vortices in a disk with constant angular velocity. Each vortex in the vortex lattice…

hep-th2017★ 19 cited

Competing s-wave orders from Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity

Zhi-Hong Li, Yun-Chang Fu, Zhang-Yu Nie

In this paper, the holographic superconductor model with two s-wave orders from 4+1 dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is explored in the probe limit. At different values of…