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Strange Metal Transport Realized by Gauge/Gravity Duality

Year: 2010

Type: article

Abstract: Black Holes as Tools When confronted with a difficult problem, physicists often resort to mapping it to a more tractable one. A good example of this strategy is provided by new developments linking string theory and condensed-matter physics to make theoretical connections between gravity and complex systems of interacting electrons. This theoretical convergence provides a description of Fermi liquids, which can be thought of as interacting systems of electrons whose excitations can be expressed in terms of non-interacting quasiparticles. Several interesting systems elude quasiparticle description, but Faulkner et al. (p. 1043 , published online 5 August) have now developed a mathematical framework that describes the non-Fermi liquid represented by the strange metal phase of cuprate high-temperature superconductors. They calculate the electronic response and, for a particular value of a tunable parameter, recover the linear resistivity. Further development of this framework may allow elucidation of other exotic properties of the cuprates and similar complex systems.

Source: Science

DOI: 10.1126/science.1189134

Authors: Thomas Faulkner, Nabil Iqbal, Hong Liu, John McGreevy, David Vegh

Institutions: University of California, Santa Barbara, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simons Center for Geometry and Physics, Stony Brook University

Language: English

Topic: Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism

Subfield: Condensed Matter Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W1970812296

FWCI: 10.72

Cites: 35

Cited by: 150

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