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Josephson wormhole in coupled superconducting Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev metals

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: We show that two Yukawa-SYK models with a weak tunneling contact can have an exotic hybrid superconducting thermofield-double-like state that is holographically dual to a traversable wormhole connecting two black holes with charged scalar hair. The hybrid superconducting thermofield-double/wormhole (TFD/WH) state is distinguishable by anomalous scaling of revival oscillations in the fermionic Green's function, but also in a unique Andreev revival in the anomalous Green's function. The existence of this TFD/WH state surprisingly shows that some quantum critical effects can survive the phase transition to superconductivity. This Andreev revival is in principle an accessible signature of the transition to the TFD/WH phase detectable in the ac Josephson current.

Source: Physical Review Research

DOI: 10.1103/v2gn-l936

Authors: Aravindh S. Shankar, Jasper Steenbergen, Stephan Plugge, Koenraad Schalm

Institutions: Leiden University, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)

Language: English

Topic: Black Holes and Theoretical Physics

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: gold

Estimated APC paid: $2,625

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek