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Fourth sound of holographic superfluids

  • Amos Yarom

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Abstract

We compute fourth sound for superfluids dual to a charged scalar and a gauge field in an AdS 4 background. For holographic superfluids with condensates that have a large scaling dimension (greater than approximately two), we find that fourth sound approaches first sound at low temperatures. For condensates that a have a small scaling dimension it exhibits non-conformal behavior at low temperatures which may be tied to the non-conformal behavior of the order parameter of the superfluid. We show that by introducing an appropriate scalar potential, conformal invariance can be enforced at low temperatures.

Original languageEnglish
Article number070
JournalJournal of High Energy Physics
Volume2009
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 21 Oct 2009
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • AdS-CFT Correspondence
  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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