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Holographic Fermionic Fixed Points in d=3

High Energy Physics - Theory 2013-06-21 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We present a top-down string theory holographic model of strongly interacting relativistic 2+1-dimensional fermions, paying careful attention to the discrete symmetries of parity and time reversal invariance. Our construction is based on probe D7D7-branes in AdS5×S5AdS_5 \times S^5, stabilized by internal fluxes. We find three solutions, a parity and time reversal invariant conformal field theory which can be viewed as a particular deformation of Coulomb interacting graphene, a parity and time reversal violating but gapless field theory and a system with a parity and time reversal violating charge gap. We show that the Chern-Simons-like electric response function, which is generated perturbatively at one-loop order by parity violating fermions and which is protected by a no-renormalization theorem at orders beyond one loop, indeed appears with the correctly quantized coefficient in the charge gapped theory. In the gapless parity violating solution, the Chern-Simons response function obtains quantum corrections which we compute in the holographic theory.

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@article{arxiv.1107.4397,
  title  = {Holographic Fermionic Fixed Points in d=3},
  author = {Joshua L. Davis and Hamid Omid and Gordon W. Semenoff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1107.4397},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

25 pages, six figures

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