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Holographic Fermi surfaces near quantum phase transitions

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-12-15 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We study holographic Fermi surfaces coupled to a bosonic degree of freedom using the gauge/gravity correspondence. The gravity background is a charged black hole in asymptotically AdS spacetime. We introduce a neutral scalar field with parameters such that the system is at a quantum phase transition point. We further introduce a Dirac field and couple it to the scalar. At finite N, these fields interact in the bulk. We compute the bulk one-loop contribution to the boundary fermionic self-energies at various quantum phase transition points. The results would give an embedding of the marginal Fermi liquid model by Varma et al. into a holographic context. We comment on important issues that arise at low energies when one wants to take the one-loop results more seriously.

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@article{arxiv.1112.3318,
  title  = {Holographic Fermi surfaces near quantum phase transitions},
  author = {David Vegh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.3318},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages, 6 figures