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Strange metal from local quantum chaos

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2018-04-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

How to make a model of a non-Fermi-liquid metal with efficient current dissipation is a long-standing problem. Results from holographic duality suggest a framework where local critical fermionic degrees of freedom provide both a source of decoherence for the Landau quasiparticle, and a sink for its momentum. This leads us to study a Kondo lattice type model with SYK models in place of the spin impurities. We find evidence for a stable phase at intermediate couplings.

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@article{arxiv.1711.02686,
  title  = {Strange metal from local quantum chaos},
  author = {Daniel Ben-Zion and John McGreevy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.02686},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

21+11 pages, 15 figures. v2: added references and minor clarifications

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