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arxiv: 0903.1353 · v2 · submitted 2009-03-09 · ✦ hep-th

Fourth sound of holographic superfluids

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keywords soundfourthsuperfluidstemperaturesbehaviorcondensatesdimensionholographic
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We compute fourth sound for superfluids dual to a charged scalar and a gauge field in an AdS_4 background. For holographic superfluids with condensates that have a large scaling dimension (greater than approximately two), we find that fourth sound approaches first sound at low temperatures. For condensates that a have a small scaling dimension it exhibits non-conformal behavior at low temperatures which may be tied to the non-conformal behavior of the order parameter of the superfluid. We show that by introducing an appropriate scalar potential, conformal invariance can be enforced at low temperatures.

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