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Stimulated superconductivity at strong coupling

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Stimulating a system with time dependent sources can enhance instabilities, thus increasing the critical temperature at which the system transitions to interesting low-temperature phases such as superconductivity or superfluidity. After reviewing this phenomenon in non-equilibrium BCS theory (and its marginal fermi liquid generalization) we analyze the effect in holographic superconductors. We exhibit a simple regime in which the transition temperature increases parametrically as we increase the frequency of the time-dependent source.

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    Ning Bao, Xi Dong, Eva Silverstein & Gonzalo Torroba

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Bao, N., Dong, X., Silverstein, E. et al. Stimulated superconductivity at strong coupling. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 123 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)123

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