Holographic Fermionic Fixed Points in d=3
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 -branes in , 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.
Cite
@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