# Towards complete phase diagrams of a holographic p-wave superconductor model

Journal of High Energy Physics, Apr 2014

Abstract We study in detail the phase structure of a holographic p-wave superconductor model in a five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-complex vector field theory with a negative cosmological constant. To construct complete phase diagrams of the model, we consider both the soliton and black hole backgrounds. In both two cases, there exist second order, first order and zeroth order phase transitions, and the so-called “retrograde condensation” also happens. In particular, in the soliton case with the mass of the vector field being beyond a certain critical value, we find a series of phase transitions happen such as “insulator/superconductor/insulator/superconductor”, as the chemical potential continuously increases. We construct complete phase diagrams in terms of temperature and chemical potential and find some new phase boundaries.

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Rong-Gen Cai, Li Li, Li-Fang Li, Run-Qiu Yang. Towards complete phase diagrams of a holographic p-wave superconductor model, Journal of High Energy Physics, 2014, 16, DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2014)016