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Holographic d-wave superconductors

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We construct top down models for holographic d-wave superfluids in which the order parameter is a charged spin two field in the bulk. Close to the transition temperature the condensed phase can be captured by a charged spin two field in an R-charged black hole background (downstairs picture) or equivalently by specific graviton perturbations of a spinning black brane (upstairs picture). We analyse the necessary conditions on the mass and the charge of the spin two field for a condensed phase to exist and we discuss the competition of the d-wave phase with other phases such as s-wave superfluids.

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  1. Institute of Theoretical Physics, Science Park 904, Postbus 94485, 1090 GL, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Keun-Young Kim & Marika Taylor

  2. Department of Physics and Photon Science, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 123 Cheomdangwagi-ro, Buk-gu, Gwangju, 500-712, South Korea

    Keun-Young Kim

  3. School of Mathematical Sciences and STAG Research Centre, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, U.K

    Marika Taylor

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Kim, KY., Taylor, M. Holographic d-wave superconductors. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 112 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2013)112

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