Monday, October 8, 2012

1210.1606 (Gavin S. Hartnett et al.)

Geons and Spin-2 Condensates in the AdS Soliton    [PDF]

Gavin S. Hartnett, Gary T. Horowitz
We construct geons starting with gravitational perturbations of the AdS soliton. Previous studies of a charged scalar field in the soliton background showed a holographic insulator/superconductor transition at a critical chemical potential. We explore the possibility that dimensional reduction of the geon could model a transition to a d-wave superconductor. We find that although one does get a charged spin-2 condensate, it has higher free energy than the state without the condensate, so there is no phase transition.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1606

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