Landscape of superconducting membranes

被引:143
作者
Denef, Frederik [1 ,2 ]
Hartnoll, Sean A. [1 ]
机构
[1] Harvard Univ, Jefferson Phys Lab, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Univ Louvain, Inst Theoret Fys, B-3001 Louvain, Belgium
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW D | 2009年 / 79卷 / 12期
关键词
EINSTEIN; PHYSICS; SPACE;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevD.79.126008
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The AdS/CFT correspondence may connect the landscape of string vacua and the "atomic landscape'' of condensed matter physics. We study the stability of a landscape of IR fixed points of N = 2 large N gauge theories in 2 + 1 dimensions, dual to Sasaki-Einstein compactifications of M theory, toward a superconducting state. By exhibiting instabilities of charged black holes in these compactifications, we show that many of these theories have charged operators that condense when the theory is placed at a finite chemical potential. We compute a statistical distribution of critical superconducting temperatures for a subset of these theories. With a chemical potential of 1 mV, we find critical temperatures ranging between 0.24 and 165 K.
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