Conformal field theories in a periodic potential: Results from holography and field theory

We study (2+1)-dimensional conformal field theories (CFTs) with a globally conserved U(1) charge, placed in a chemical potential which is periodically modulated along the spatial direction x with zero average: μ(x)=V cos(kx). The dynamics of such theories depends only on the dimensionless ratio V/k,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chesler, Paul Michael, Lucas, Andrew, Sachdev, Subir
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Physical Society 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/87751