Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, and AdS[subscript 2]

Gravity solutions dual to d-dimensional field theories at finite charge density have a near-horizon region, which is AdS2×Rd-1. The scale invariance of the AdS2 region implies that at low energies the dual field theory exhibits emergent quantum critical behavior controlled by a (0+1)-dimensional con...

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Main Authors: Faulkner, Thomas, Liu, Hong, McGreevy, John, Vegh, David
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66955
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-3183