Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points

Tom Faulkner, Nabil Iqbal, Hong Liu, John McGreevy, David Vegh

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)1640-1669
Number of pages30
JournalPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume369
Issue number1941
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 28 2011
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Black holes
  • Gauge/gravity duality
  • Non-Fermi liquids

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Mathematics
  • General Engineering
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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