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Using gauge/gravity duality techniques, we discuss the sound-channel retarded correlators of vector and tensor conserved currents in a class of $(2+1)$-dimensional strongly-coupled field theories at zero temperature and finite charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Mohammad Edalati , Juan I. Jottar , Robert G. Leigh

Gravity solutions dual to d-dimensional field theories at finite charge density have a near-horizon region which is AdS_2 x R^{d-1}. The scale invariance of the AdS_2 region implies that at low energies the dual field theory exhibits…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-01 Thomas Faulkner , Hong Liu , John McGreevy , David Vegh

We investigate quantum phase transitions in a 2+1 dimensional gauge theory at finite chemical potential $\chi$ and magnetic field $B$. The gravity dual is based on 4D $\mathcal{N}=2$ Fayet-Iliopoulos gauged supergravity and the solutions we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-14 A. Gnecchi , U. Gursoy , O. Papadoulaki , C. Toldo

We describe general features of frequency-dependent charge transport near strongly interacting quantum critical points in 2+1 dimensions. The simplest description using the AdS/CFT correspondence leads to a self-dual Einstein-Maxwell theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Robert C. Myers , Subir Sachdev , Ajay Singh

We study the holographic dual of the extended thermodynamics of spherically symmetric, charged Gauss-Bonnet AdS black holes in the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Compared to Einstein's theory of gravity, Gauss-Bonnet gravity…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Limin Zeng

The zero-temperature limit of a continuous phase transition is marked by a quantum critical point, which can generate exotic physics that extends to elevated temperatures. Magnetic quantum criticality is now well known, and has been…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-02-21 Awadhesh Narayan , Andres Cano , Alexander V. Balatsky , Nicola A. Spaldin

We study the critical breakdown of two-dimensional quantum magnets in the presence of algebraically decaying long-range interactions by investigating the transverse-field Ising model on the square and triangular lattice. This is achieved…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-01-09 S. Fey , Sebastian C. Kapfer , K. P. Schmidt

In this paper we build a holographic model of paramagnetism/antiferromagnetism phase transition, which is realized by introducing two real antisymmetric tensor fields coupling to the background gauge field strength and interacting with each…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-08 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang

Holographic modeling of strongly correlated many-body systems motivates the study of novel spacetime geometries where the scaling behavior of quantum critical systems is encoded into spacetime symmetries. Einstein-Dilaton-Maxwell theory has…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-07-11 V. Keranen , L. Thorlacius

Using holographic duality, we present an analytically controlled theory of quantum critical points without quasiparticles, at finite disorder and finite charge density. These fixed points are obtained by perturbing a disorder-free quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-05 Xiaoyang Huang , Subir Sachdev , Andrew Lucas

We derive a holographic formulation of triplet superconductivity in a two-dimensional metal at a ferromagnetic quantum critical point. Starting from a large-$N$ Yukawa-Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of compressible fermions coupled to…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-24 Veronika C. Stangier , Jörg Schmalian

We discuss dynamical response functions near quantum critical points, allowing for both a finite temperature and detuning by a relevant operator. When the quantum critical point is described by a conformal field theory (CFT), conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-03 Andrew Lucas , Todd Sierens , William Witczak-Krempa

We investigate the shear viscosity and butterfly velocity of a magnetic field-induced quantum phase transition in five dimensional Einstein-Maxwell-Chern-Simons theory, which is holographically dual to a class of strongly coupled quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Jun-Kun Zhao , Li Li

In the framework of the gauge/gravity duality, and in particular of the $AdS_3/CFT_2$ correspondence, we study one-dimensional superconductors analyzing the dual (1+2)-dimensional gravity in the presence of the Einstein-power-Maxwell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-08 Grigoris Panotopoulos

We study quantum quench in a holographic model of a zero temperature insulator-superfluid transition. The model is a modification of that of arXiv:0911.0962 and involves a self-coupled complex scalar field, Einstein gravity with a negative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Pallab Basu , Diptarka Das , Sumit R. Das , Tatsuma Nishioka

One of the most exciting things in recent theoretical physics is the suspicion that gravity may be holographic, dual to some sort of quantum field theory living on the boundary with one less dimension. Such a suspicion has been supported…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-24 Yu Tian , Xiao-Ning Wu , Hongbao Zhang

In (d+1) dimensional Multiscale Entanglement Renormalization Ansatz (MERA) networks, tensors are connected so as to reproduce the discrete, (d + 2) holographic geometry of Anti de Sitter space (AdSd+2) with the original system lying at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-07 Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Pasquale Sodano

Within the framework of braneworld holography, we construct a quantum charged black hole localized on a three-dimensional anti-de Sitter (AdS) brane that intersects the asymptotic boundary of the four-dimensional AdS spacetime at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-16 Yiji Feng , Hao Ma , Robert B. Mann , Yesheng Xue , Ming Zhang

We analytically obtain the free energy and thermodynamic geometry of holographic superconductors in $2+1$-dimensions. The gravitational theory in the bulk dual to this $2+1$-dimensional strongly coupled theory lives in the $3+1$-dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-23 Debabrata Ghorai , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

Einsteinian cubic gravity provides a holographic toy model of a nonsupersymmetric CFT in three dimensions, analogous to the one defined by Quasi-topological gravity in four. The theory admits explicit non-hairy AdS$_4$ black holes and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-18 Pablo Bueno , Pablo A. Cano , Alejandro Ruiperez