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We formulate a theory of dissipative hydrodynamics with spontaneously broken translations, describing charge density waves in a clean isotropic electronic crystal. We identify a novel linear transport coefficient, lattice pressure,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-07-01 Jay Armas , Akash Jain

We consider inhomogeneous, periodic, holographic lattices of D=4 Einstein-Maxwell theory. We show that the DC thermoelectric conductivity matrix can be expressed analytically in terms of the horizon data of the corresponding black hole…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

Using simple holographic models in $D=4$ spacetime dimensions we construct black hole solutions dual to $d=3$ CFTs at finite charge density with a Q-lattice deformation. At zero temperature we find new ground state solutions with broken…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

The problem of nonlinear transport in a two dimensional superconductor with an applied oscillating electric field is solved by the holographic method. The complex conductivity can be computed from the dynamics of the current for both near-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-06-22 Hua Bi Zeng , Yu Tian , Zhe Yong Fan , Chiang-Mei Chen

We consider thermal phases of holographic lattices at finite chemical potential in which a continuous internal bulk symmetry can be spontaneously broken. In the normal phase, translational symmetry is explicitly broken by the lattice and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-01 Aristomenis Donos , Daniel Martin , Christiana Pantelidou , Vaios Ziogas

We add a gravitational background lattice to the simplest holographic model of matter at finite density and calculate the optical conductivity. With the lattice, the zero frequency delta function found in previous calculations (resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Gary T. Horowitz , Jorge E. Santos , David Tong

We compute direct current (dc) thermoelectric transport coefficients in strongly coupled quantum field theories without long lived quasiparticles, at finite temperature and charge density, and disordered on long wavelengths compared to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-30 Andrew Lucas

In this note we study the effects of a magnetic field on transport using holographic models with broken translational invariance. We show that, after carefully subtracting off non-trivial magnetisation currents, it is possible to express…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-08 Mike Blake , Aristomenis Donos , Nakarin Lohitsiri

We consider a general class of electrically charged black holes of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory that are holographically dual to conformal field theories at finite charge density which break translation invariance explicitly. We examine…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-13 Elliot Banks , Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

Using the bottom-up approach in a holographic setting, we attempt to study both the transport and thermodynamic properties of a generic system in 3+1 dimensional bulk spacetime. We show the exact 1/T and $T^2$ dependence of the longitudinal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Shesansu Sekhar Pal

We provide an analytical derivation of the thermo-electric transport coefficients of the simplest momentum-dissipating model in gauge/gravity where the lack of momentum conservation is realized by means of explicit graviton mass in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-09 Andrea Amoretti , Alessandro Braggio , Nicola Maggiore , Nicodemo Magnoli , Daniele Musso

We present a semi-analytic method for constructing holographic black holes that interpolate from anti-de Sitter space to hyperscaling-violating geometries. These are holographic duals of conformal field theories in the presence of an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-01-26 Andrew Lucas , Subir Sachdev

We use Gauge/Gravity duality to write down an effective low energy holographic theory of charge density waves. We consider a simple gravity model which breaks translations spontaneously in the dual field theory in a homogeneous manner,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-02 Andrea Amoretti , Daniel Areán , Blaise Goutéraux , Daniele Musso

We build a holographic description of non-relativistic system for superconductivity in strongly interacting condensed matter via gauge/gravity duality. We focus on the phase transition and give an example to show that a simple gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-03 Shi Pu , Sang-Jin Sin , Yang Zhou

Membrane paradigm is a powerful tool to study properties of black hole horizons. We first explore the properties of the nonlinear electromagnetic membrane of black holes. For a general nonlinear electrodynamics field, we show that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-25 Xiaobo Guo , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

We study the dynamics and the relaxation of bulk plasmons in strongly coupled and quantum critical systems using the holographic framework. We analyze the dispersion relation of the plasmonic modes in detail for an illustrative class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-02 Matteo Baggioli , Ulf Gran , Amadeo Jimenez Alba , Marcus Tornsö , Tobias Zingg

Within holography the DC conductivity can be obtained by solving a system of Stokes equations for an auxiliary fluid living on the black hole horizon. We show that these equations can be derived from a novel variational principle involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-02 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Tom Griffin , Nakarin Lohitsiri , Luis Melgar

Massive gravity provides a holographic model for theories exhibiting momentum dissipation. We provide an analytic expression for the DC conductivity. The result is universal, depending only on properties of the infra-red horizon, and holds…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-10 Mike Blake , David Tong

We consider black hole spacetimes that are holographically dual to strongly coupled field theories in which spatial translations are broken explicitly. We discuss how the quasinormal modes associated with diffusion of heat and charge can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-04-04 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett , Vaios Ziogas

We study holographic charge transport in (2+1) dimensions at finite $N$, whose dual gravity background is given by perturbative black hole solution in Einstein theory plus cubic terms of Weyl tensor. We consider the higher derivative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-29 Shan Bai , Da-Wei Pang