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Holographic quantum matter exploits the AdS/CFT correspondence to study systems in condensed matter physics. An example of these systems are strongly correlated semimetals, which feature a rich phase diagram structure. In this work, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-04 Sebastián Bahamondes , Ignacio Salazar Landea , Rodrigo Soto-Garrido

At the dawn of a new theoretical tool based on the AdS/CFT correspondence for nonperturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics, we give an interim review on the new tool, holographic QCD, with some of its accomplishment. We try to give an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Youngman Kim , Ik Jae Shin , Takuya Tsukioka

The holographic approach to study strongly coupled superconductors in the presence of dark matter is reviewed. We discuss the influence of dark matter on the superconducting transition temperature of both s-wave and p-wave holographic…

General Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Marek Rogatko , Karol I. Wysokinski

A holographic dual description of a 2+1 dimensional system of strongly interacting fermions at low temperature and finite charge density is given in terms of an electron cloud suspended over the horizon of a charged black hole in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 V. Giangreco M. Puletti , S. Nowling , L. Thorlacius , T. Zingg

A central problem in quantum condensed matter physics is the critical theory governing the zero temperature quantum phase transition between strongly renormalized Fermi-liquids as found in heavy fermion intermetallics and possibly high Tc…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-23 Mihailo Cubrovic , Jan Zaanen , Koenraad Schalm

The physical analysis of condensed matter systems can be difficult due to strong coupling, but the mathematical context of the AdS/CFT correspondence enables non-perturbative descriptions in terms of dual weakly coupled systems. This brief…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-16 D. R. Musk

We study the Fermi level structure of 2+1-dimensional strongly interacting electron systems in external magnetic field using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravity dual of a finite density fermion system is a Dirac field in the background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 E. Gubankova , J. Brill , M. Cubrovic , K. Schalm , P. Schijven , J. Zaanen

The holographic duality (also known as AdS/CFT correspondence or gauge/gravity duality) postulates that strongly coupled quantum field theories can be described in a dual way in asymptotically Anti-de Sitter space. One of the cornerstones…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-22 Daniel Arean , David Garcia-Fariña , Karl Landsteiner

AdS black holes with hyperbolic horizons provide strong-coupling descriptions of thermal CFT states on hyperboloids. The low-temperature limit of these systems is peculiar. In this note we show that, in addition to a large ground state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Jose L. F. Barbon , Javier Martin-Garcia

We study the hololgraphic dual of the extended thermodynamics of spherically symmetric, charged AdS black holes in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The gravitational thermodynamics of AdS black holes can be extended by allowing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Wan Cong , David Kubiznak , Robert Mann , Manus Visser

We have investigated a holographic model of a multi-layered superconductor in (2+1)-dimensions using the AdS/CFT correspondence. This correspondence allows us to study strongly interacting condensed matter systems through a weakly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-05-14 Chi-Hsien Tai , Wen-Yu Wen

The Swampland Program aims to delineate the space of consistent low-energy effective field theories (EFTs) that admit a UV completion in quantum gravity from those that do not. In parallel, holography, and particularly the AdS/CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Sudhaker Upadhyay , Alexander Reshetnyak , Pavel Moshin , Ricardo Castro

Higher superconducting critical temperature and large-area epsilon-near-zero interfaces are two long-standing goals of Condensed Matter Physics and Optics. Motivated by the recent advancements of experimental interests on metallic…

We initiate a holographic model building approach to `strange metallic' phenomenology. Our model couples a neutral Lifshitz-invariant quantum critical theory, dual to a bulk gravitational background, to a finite density of gapped probe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Sean A. Hartnoll , Joseph Polchinski , Eva Silverstein , David Tong

We study the evolution of holographic complexity in various AdS/CFT models containing cosmological crunch singularities. We find that a notion of complexity measured by extremal bulk volumes tends to decrease as the singularity is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Jose L. F. Barbon , Eliezer Rabinovici

These are course notes for the 'Introduction to holography' Master level course at University of Cologne. The goal of the course is to give a pedogogical introduction to holography. Holography is a popular approach to quantum gravity, in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-06 Nele Callebaut

The AdS/CFT correspondence states an equivalence between a quantum gravitational theory in a (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime (AdS$_{d+1}$) and a d-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT$_{d}$). The CFT$_{d}$ lives on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-23 Hao Geng , Daniel Jafferis , Pushkal Shrivastava , Neeraj Tata

Metallic quantum critical phenomena are believed to play a key role in many strongly correlated materials, including high temperature superconductors. Theoretically, the problem of quantum criticality in the presence of a Fermi surface has…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-03 Erez Berg , Samuel Lederer , Yoni Schattner , Simon Trebst

A holographic description on antiferromagnetic quantum phase transition (QPT) induced by magnetic field and the criticality in the vicinity of quantum critical point (QCP) have been investigated numerically recently. In this paper, we show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang , F. V. Kusmartsev

I review some of the concepts at the crossroads of gravitational thermodynamics, holography and quantum mechanics. First, the origin of gravitational thermodynamics due to coarse graining of quantum information is exemplified using the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-02 Joan Simon