Oct 19 – 22, 2011
Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA
US/Eastern timezone

Holographic superconductors at low temperatures

Oct 20, 2011, 10:00 AM
30m
Crystal Ballroom A (Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA)

Crystal Ballroom A

Hotel Roanoke, Roanoke VA

Speaker

George Siopsis (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)

Description

Holographic models of superconductivity offer a promising approach to the understanding of strongly coupled superconductors. Their properties are derived from non-linear field equations which are hard to solve, especially at low temperatures. I will discuss analytic tools that generate solutions down to zero temperature. This exploration is important for the understanding of the ground state of these systems. I will present results in the probe limit (vanishing chemical potential mu), as well as the extremal limit (small critical temperature to chemical potential (T_c/mu) ratio).

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