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Conductivity bound from dirty black holes

High Energy Physics - Theory 2016-11-23 v2

Abstract

We propose a lower bound of the dc electrical conductivity in strongly disordered, strongly interacting quantum field theories using holography. We study linear response of black holes with broken translational symmetry in Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theories of gravity. Using the generalized Stokes equations at the horizon, we derive the lower bound of the electrical conductivity for the dual two dimensional disordered field theory.

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@article{arxiv.1602.05943,
  title  = {Conductivity bound from dirty black holes},
  author = {Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.05943},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

9 pages, no figure. v2:Title changed to better reflect content, published version in Physics Letters B

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