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Thermoelectric DC conductivities from black hole horizons

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-06-22 v4 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

An analytic expression for the DC electrical conductivity in terms of black hole horizon data was recently obtained for a class of holographic black holes exhibiting momentum dissipation. We generalise this result to obtain analogous expressions for the DC thermoelectric and thermal conductivities. We illustrate our results using some holographic Q-lattice black holes as well as for some black holes with linear massless axions, in both D=4D=4 and D=5D=5 bulk spacetime dimensions, which include both spatially isotropic and anisotropic examples. We show that some recently constructed ground states of holographic Q-lattices, which can be either electrically insulating or metallic, are all thermal insulators.

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@article{arxiv.1406.4742,
  title  = {Thermoelectric DC conductivities from black hole horizons},
  author = {Aristomenis Donos and Jerome P. Gauntlett},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4742},
  year   = {2015}
}

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29 pages. Very minor changes; published version