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arxiv: 0911.1866 · v1 · pith:4OGFWV52new · submitted 2009-11-10 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.quant-gas

Inhomogeneous Structures in Holographic Superfluids: I. Dark Solitons

classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.quant-gas
keywords holographicsolitonsdarkfindsuperfluidschargecoherencedepletion
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We begin an investigation of inhomogeneous structures in holographic superfluids. As a first example, we study domain wall like defects in the 3+1 dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Higgs theory, which was developed as a dual model for a holographic superconductor. In [1], we reported on such "dark solitons" in holographic superfluids. In this work, we present an extensive numerical study of their properties, working in the probe limit. We construct dark solitons for two possible condensing operators, and find that both of them share common features with their standard superfluid counterparts. However, both are characterized by two distinct coherence length scales (one for order parameter, one for charge condensate). We study the relative charge depletion factor and find that solitons in the two different condensates have very distinct depletion characteristics. We also study quasiparticle excitations above the holographic superfluid, and find that the scale of the excitations is comparable to the soliton coherence length scales.

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