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Magnetothermoelectric Response from Holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-09-08 v2

Abstract

In this note we study the effects of a magnetic field on transport using holographic models with broken translational invariance. We show that, after carefully subtracting off non-trivial magnetisation currents, it is possible to express the DC transport currents of the boundary theory in terms of properties of a black hole horizon. This allows us to obtain simple analytic expressions for the electrical, thermoelectric and heat conductivity tensors. Our results apply to both isotropic and anisotropic models, including holographic Q-lattices and to certain theories where translational invariance is broken by linear sources for axions.

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@article{arxiv.1502.03789,
  title  = {Magnetothermoelectric Response from Holography},
  author = {Mike Blake and Aristomenis Donos and Nakarin Lohitsiri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.03789},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages + appendices, v2: version published in JHEP

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