Thursday, February 28, 2013

1302.6586 (Gary T. Horowitz et al.)

General Relativity and the Cuprates    [PDF]

Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos
We add a periodic potential to the simplest gravitational model of a superconductor and compute the optical conductivity. In addition to a superfluid component, we find a normal component that has Drude behavior at low frequency followed by a power law fall-off. Both the exponent and coefficient of the power law are temperature independent and agree with earlier results computed above $T_c$. These results are in striking agreement with measurements on some cuprates. We also find a gap $\Delta = 4.0\ T_c$, a rapidly decreasing scattering rate, and "missing spectral weight" at low frequency, all of which also agree with experiments.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6586

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