A holographic perspective on phonons and pseudo-phonons

Abstract We analyze the concomitant spontaneous breaking of translation and conformal symmetries by introducing in a CFT a complex scalar operator that acquires a spatially dependent expectation value. The model, inspired by the holographic Q-lattice, provides a privileged setup to study the emergen...

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Main Authors: Andrea Amoretti, Daniel Areán, Riccardo Argurio, Daniele Musso, Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP05(2017)051