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# Transport in Anisotropic Superfluids: A Holographic Description

(Impact Factor: 6.11). 09/2011; 2012(1). DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)059
Source: arXiv

ABSTRACT

We study transport phenomena in p-wave superfluids in the context of
gauge/gravity duality. Due to the spacetime anisotropy of this system, the
tensorial structure of the transport coefficients is non-trivial in contrast to
the isotropic case. In particular, there is an additional shear mode which
leads to a non-universal value of the shear viscosity even in an Einstein
gravity setup. In this paper, we present a complete study of the helicity two
and helicity one fluctuation modes. In addition to the non-universal shear
viscosity, we also investigate the thermoelectric effect, i.e. the mixing of
electric and heat current. Moreover, we also find an additional effect due to
the anisotropy, the so-called flexoelectric effect.

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• "The breakdown of (1.1) in [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] is not too surprising. Heuristically, the robustness of (1.1) can be argued for by observing that the shear viscosity tensor η is susceptible only to tensor mode fluctuations of the dual bulk metric which, in an isotropic background, decouple from the other metric fluctuations thereby leading to universal behavior. "
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• "In the broken phase we see a temperature dependence and the resulting curve does not fall below 1/(4π) for any backreaction parameter α and for any temperature. Since we have completed our analysis of all fluctuation modes in the p-wave system, let us now summarize them, as well as the transport phenomena they correspond to: 1. h yz (helicity two) is related to the shear viscosity η yz which for all values of T takes the universal value η/s = 1/4π (see [19]), 2. h x⊥ (helicity one) is related to the shear viscosity η x⊥ which shows a temperature dependence in the broken phase (see [19]), 3. The coupling between a ± ⊥ = a 1 ⊥ ± ia 2 ⊥ (helicity one) and h x⊥ leads to an effect which is similar to the flexoelectric effect known from crystals (see [19]), 4. a 3 ⊥ is related to the " electrical " conductivity σ ⊥⊥ (helicity one), and its coupling to h t⊥ (helicity one) is related to the so called thermoelectric effect transverse to the condensate (see [19]), 5. Φ 4 ∼ a 3 x (helicity zero) is related to the " electrical " conductivity σ xx , and its coupling to h tx (helicity zero) gives the thermoelectric effect in the direction of the condensate (see section 4), 6. Φ 3 ∼ h xx − h yy (helicity zero) is related to the transport coefficient λ found in the viscosity tensor η ijkl and its coupling to Φ ± ∼ a ± x (helicity zero) shows a behaviour similar to the piezoelectric effect (see section 4). "
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