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On Holographic Insulators and Supersolids

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-10-05 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity

Abstract

We obtain holographic realizations for systems that have strong similarities to Mott insulators and supersolids, after examining the ground states of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar systems. The real part of the AC conductivity has a hard gap and a discrete spectrum only. We add momentum dissipation to resolve the delta function in the conductivity due to translational invariance. We develop tools to directly calculate the Drude weight for a large class of solutions and to support our claims. Numerical RG flows are also constructed to verify that such saddle points are IR fixed points of asymptotically AdS_4 geometries.

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@article{arxiv.1503.03481,
  title  = {On Holographic Insulators and Supersolids},
  author = {Elias Kiritsis and Jie Ren},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.03481},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

52 pages, jheppub, 15 figures; v2: minor corrections, references added

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