Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points
Techniques arising from string theory can be used to study assemblies of strongly interacting fermions. Via this ‘holographic duality’, various strongly coupled many-body systems are solved using an auxiliary theory of gravity. Simple holographic realizations of finite density exhibit single-particl...
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| author | Faulkner, Thomas Iqbal, Nabil Liu, Hong McGreevy, John Vegh, David |
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| description | Techniques arising from string theory can be used to study assemblies of strongly interacting fermions. Via this ‘holographic duality’, various strongly coupled many-body systems are solved using an auxiliary theory of gravity. Simple holographic realizations of finite density exhibit single-particle spectral functions with sharp Fermi surfaces, of a form distinct from those of the Landau theory. The self-energy is given by a correlation function in an infrared (IR) fixed-point theory that is represented by a two-dimensional anti de Sitter space (AdS2) region in the dual gravitational description. Here, we describe in detail the gravity calculation of this IR correlation function. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/712682022-09-28T11:26:29Z Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points Faulkner, Thomas Iqbal, Nabil Liu, Hong McGreevy, John Vegh, David Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics McGreevy, John Iqbal, Nabil Liu, Hong McGreevy, John Techniques arising from string theory can be used to study assemblies of strongly interacting fermions. Via this ‘holographic duality’, various strongly coupled many-body systems are solved using an auxiliary theory of gravity. Simple holographic realizations of finite density exhibit single-particle spectral functions with sharp Fermi surfaces, of a form distinct from those of the Landau theory. The self-energy is given by a correlation function in an infrared (IR) fixed-point theory that is represented by a two-dimensional anti de Sitter space (AdS2) region in the dual gravitational description. Here, we describe in detail the gravity calculation of this IR correlation function. United States. Dept. of Energy (cooperative research agreement DE-FG0205ER41360) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (grant NSF PHY05-51164) Alfred P. Sloan Foundation 2012-06-29T17:34:59Z 2012-06-29T17:34:59Z 2011-04 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1471-2962 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71268 Faulkner, T. et al. “Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 369.1941 (2011): 1640-1669. 21422019 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-3183 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2010.0354 Philosophical Transactions of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf Royal Society, The Prof. McGreevy via Mat Willmott |
| spellingShingle | Faulkner, Thomas Iqbal, Nabil Liu, Hong McGreevy, John Vegh, David Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title | Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title_full | Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title_fullStr | Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title_full_unstemmed | Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title_short | Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points |
| title_sort | holographic non fermi liquid fixed points |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/71268 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4911-3183 |
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