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Holographic Studies of Entanglement Entropy in Superconductors

Tameem Albash, Clifford V. Johnson

Published Aug 16, 2016• 66 citations
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talbash, johnson1, [at] usc.edu We present the results of our studies of the entanglement entropy of a superconducting system described holographically as a fully back–reacted gravity system, with a stable ground state. We use the holographic prescription for the entanglement entropy. We uncover the behavior of the entropy across the superconducting phase transition, showing the reorganization of the degrees of freedom of the system. We exhibit the behaviour of the entanglement entropy from the superconducting transition all the way down to the ground state at T = 0. In some cases, we also observe a novel transition in the entanglement entropy at intermediate temperatures, resulting from the detection of an additional length scale. 1 ar

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