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Towards a field-theory interpretation of bottom-up holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2015-04-16 v3 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

We investigate recent results for the electrical conductivity and the fermionic self-energy, obtained in a holographic bottom-up model for a relativistic charge-neutral conformal field theory. We present two possible field-theoretic derivations of these results, using either a semiholographic or a holographic point of view. In the semiholographic interpretation, we also show how, in general, the conductivity should be calculated in agreement with Ward identities. The resulting field-theory interpretation may lead to a better understanding of the holographic dictionary in applied AdS/CMT.

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@article{arxiv.1411.4051,
  title  = {Towards a field-theory interpretation of bottom-up holography},
  author = {V. P. J. Jacobs and S. Grubinskas and H. T. C. Stoof},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.4051},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

41 pages, 9 figures. v3: published version, typo corrected in eq on p. 8