25–28 Sept 2012
DESY Hamburg
Europe/Berlin timezone

The superconducting QCD vacuum at large magnetic field from holography

26 Sept 2012, 15:00
20m
Seminar room 1 (DESY)

Seminar room 1

DESY

Speaker

Dr Jonathan Shock (Max Planck Institute)

Description

It has been shown by Chernodub et al. that the rho meson of QCD in the presence of a very large magnetic field condenses, giving a superconducting ground state. The solution takes on a lattice form of an Abrikosov type. We calculate the holographic dual of this phenomenon. In particular we show that for magnetic fields close to the critical value, the lattice takes on a triangular form, in agreement with the field theory calculations.

Primary author

Dr Jonathan Shock (Max Planck Institute)

Co-authors

Mr Bu Yan yan (Max Planck Institute) Dr Erdmenger Johanna (Max Planck Institute) Mr Strydom Migael (Max Planck Institute)

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