Lectures on Holographic Superfluidity and Superconductivity
High Energy Physics - Theory
2009-08-12 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons
Abstract
Four lectures on holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence applied to condensed matter systems. The first lecture introduces the concept of a quantum phase transition. The second lecture discusses linear response theory and Ward identities. The third lecture presents transport coefficients derived from AdS/CFT that should be applicable in the quantum critical region associated to a quantum phase transition. The fourth lecture builds in the physics of a superconducting or superfluid phase transition to the simple holographic model of the third lecture.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0904.1975,
title = {Lectures on Holographic Superfluidity and Superconductivity},
author = {Christopher P. Herzog},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1975},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
39 pages, 9 figures, lectures given at the Trieste Spring School on Superstring Theory and Related Topics; v2 small corrections, to appear in J. Phys. A