Eur. Phys. J. C (2019) 79:340
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6834-0
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Analytic investigation of rotating holographic superconductors
Ankur Srivastav
a
, Sunandan Gangopadhyay
b
Department of Theoretical Sciences, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700106, India
Received: 23 February 2019 / Accepted: 29 March 2019 / Published online: 15 April 2019
© The Author(s) 2019
Abstract In this paper we have investigated, in the probe
limit, s-wave holographic superconductors in rotating
AdS
3+1
spacetime using the matching method as well as
the Stürm–Liouville eigenvalue approach. We have calcu-
lated the critical temperature using the matching technique
in such a setting and our results are in agreement with pre-
viously reported results obtained using the Stürm–Liouville
approach. We have then obtained the condensation operators
using both analytical methods. The results obtained by both
these techniques share the same features as found numeri-
cally. We observe that the rotation parameter of the black
hole affects the critical temperature and the condensation
operator in a non-trivial way.
1 Introduction
High-T
c
superconductors were discovered by Bednorz and
Müller [1]. These are prototype of the so called strongly cor-
related systems in condensed matter physics. Such systems
generically fall under strongly coupled field theories. How-
ever, due to strong coupling these systems are hard to tame
using traditional field theoretic approaches. In the last decade,
the AdS/CFT correspondence has emerged as a powerful tool
to study such systems. The AdS/CFT correspondence origi-
nated from string theory and was discovered by Maldacena
in 1997 [2]. The conjecture implies that a gravity theory in
a(d + 1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetime is an
exact dual to a conformal field theory (CFT) living on the
d-dimensional boundary of the bulk spacetime.
The importance of the gauge/gravity correspondence in
strongly coupled systems was realized in 2008 when Gubser
showed that for an asymptotic AdS black hole, near to its hori-
zon, U(1) gauge symmetry spontaneously breaks giving rise
a
e-mail: ankursrivastav@bose.res.in
b
e-mails: sunandan.gangopadhyay@gmail.com;
sunandan.gangopadhyay@bose.res.in
to the phenomenon of superconductivity in the vicinity of the
black hole horizon [3]. Immediately using this result Hart-
noll, Herzog, and Horowitz used the AdS/CFT correspon-
dence to study holographic superconductors which mim-
ics the properties of high-T
c
superconductors [4,5]. Since
then various aspects of such holographic superconductors
have been explored in various black hole space-time set-
tings [6–11]. Most of the holographic superconductors con-
sidered so far are constructed using non-rotating black hole
spacetime. However, even before the discovery of AdS/CFT
correspondence, rotating black holes were known to show
Meissner like effect [12,13]. This motivates us to investi-
gate about the role of rotating black holes in holographic
superconductor models. Such a study was first initiated in
[14] where the study of spontaneous symmetry breaking in
3 +1-dimensional rotating, charged AdS black hole was car-
ried out. It was observed that the superconducting order gets
destroyed for a particular value of the rotation just below
the critical temperature. Recently, a holographic supercon-
ductor model in rotating black hole spacetime was studied
in [15]. Here, the Stürm–Liouville (SL) eigenvalue approach
was used to obtain the critical temperature analytically. How-
ever, the condensation operator was studied numerically. Our
aim in this paper is to provide an analytical approach to rotat-
ing holographic superconductors and obtain the critical tem-
perature as well as the condensation operator. We shall first
use the matching technique to obtain the critical temperature
for both possible values of the conformal dimension. This
technique was introduced in [16] and involves the match-
ing of the solutions to the matter and gauge field equations
near the black hole horizon and the AdS boundary. We then
compare our results with those obtained from the SL tech-
nique in [15]. Using the matching approach, we then obtain
the values of the condensation operator. Further, we also
apply the SL eigenvalue approach to obtain the condensa-
tion values and compare the results with those obtained by
us using the matching technique and also with the numeri-
cal results in the literature. All the calculations in this paper
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