Holographic Multi-Band Superconductor
arXiv:1102.0977 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2011.08.053
Abstract
We propose a gravity dual for the holographic superconductor with multi-band carriers. Moreover, the currents of these carriers are unified under a global flavored SO(3) symmetry, which is dual to the bulk SO(3) gauge symmetry. We study the phase diagram of our model, and find it qualitatively agrees with the one for the realistic 2-band superconductor, such as $MgB_2$. We also identify the bulk field dual to the electromagnetic $U(1)_{EM}$ current, which should be invariant under the global flavored SO(3) rotation. We then evaluate the corresponding holographic conductivity and find the expected mean field like behaviors.
13 pages, 5 figures, v2. Major revision on the identification of U(1)_EM for evaluating the holographic conductivity in sec. 4 & add an appendix for inter-band conductivity matrix, v3. minor changes to match the published version on PLB