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We investigate the holographic fermions over a gravitational lattice background with a rather low temperature. Since the rotation symmetry is broken on the plane, the lattice effects change the shape of the Fermi surface within the first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-05 Yi Ling , Chao Niu , Jianpin Wu , Zhuoyu Xian , Hongbao Zhang

The Fermi surface is an abstract object in the reciprocal space of a crystal lattice, enclosing the set of all those electronic band states that are filled according to the Pauli principle. Its topology is dictated by the underlying lattice…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-07-20 Mukunda P. Das , Frederick Green

Techniques arising from string theory can be used to study assemblies of strongly-interacting fermions. Via this `holographic duality', various strongly-coupled many body systems are solved using an auxiliary theory of gravity. Simple…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Thomas Faulkner , Nabil Iqbal , Hong Liu , John McGreevy , David Vegh

The possibility of inter-layer exciton condensation in a holographic D3-probe-D5 brane model of a strongly coupled double monolayer Dirac semi-metal in a magnetic field is studied in detail. It is found that, when the charge densities on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Gianluca Grignani , Namshik Kim , Andrea Marini , Gordon W. Semenoff

We study the Green's function of a gauge invariant fermionic operator in a strongly coupled field theory at nonzero temperature and density using a dual gravity description. The gravity model contains a charged black hole in four…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-06-27 Christopher P. Herzog , Jie Ren

We argue that the electron star and the AdS Dirac hair solution are two limits of the free charged Fermi gas in AdS. Spectral functions of holographic duals to probe fermions in the background of electron stars have a free parameter that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Mihailo Cubrovic , Yan Liu , Koenraad Schalm , Ya-Wen Sun , Jan Zaanen

We study the holographic Fermion as a probe over the background with ionic lattice, which may undergo a phase transition with the development of charge density wave by the spontaneous breaking of the translational symmetry. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Kai Li , Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Chao Niu , Meng-He Wu

We consider the $D4-D8-\bar{D8}$ brane system which serves as ultraviolet completion of the Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model, where the only degrees of freedom carrying baryon charge are fermions. By turning on chemical potential for this charge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-03-31 Manuela Kulaxizi , Andrei Parnachev

The origin of the monoclinic distortion and domain formation in the quasi two-dimensional layer compound NbTe$_2$ is investigated. Angle-resolved photoemission shows that the Fermi surface is pseudogapped over large portions of the…

We use holography to study the ground state of a system with interacting bosonic and fermionic degrees of freedom at finite density. The gravitational model consists of Einstein-Maxwell gravity coupled to a perfect fluid of charged fermions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 Francesco Nitti , Giuseppe Policastro , Thomas Vanel

The exploration of strongly-interacting finite-density states of matter has been a major recent application of gauge-gravity duality. When the theories involved have a known Lagrangian description, they are typically deformations of large…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-18 Aleksey Cherman , Sašo Grozdanov , Edward Hardy

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

We investigate how a localized curvature affects the dynamics of massless Dirac fermions in a curved surface. We consider a smooth bump with axial symmetry, adopting two specific geometric models, namely a Gaussian and a volcano-like bumps.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-30 A. R. N. Lima , D. F. S. Veras , J. E. G. Silva

Motivated by the results of Dynamical Mean Field Theory, we study the two-point function of fermions moving in a charged black brane background in $AdS_{d+1}$ in the limit of large $d$. We observe the emergence of a locally critical form of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-08 Shamit Kachru , Milind Shyani

In this paper, we investigate theoretically the spin-orbit torque as well as the Gilbert damping for a two band model of a 2D helical surface state with a Ferromagnetic (FM) exchange coupling. We decompose the density matrix into the Fermi…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Farzad Mahfouzi , Nicholas Kioussis

Using the gauge-gravity duality, we investigate the fermionic spectroscopy in the D(-1)-D3 brane system. The background geometry of this system described by IIB supergravity includes a black (deconfined) and bubble (confined) D3-brane which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Si-wen Li , Yi-peng Zhang , Hao-qian Li

We carry out the first holographic calculation of a fermionic response function for a strongly coupled $d=3$ system with an explicit D=10 or D=11 supergravity dual. By considering the supersymmetry current, we obtain a universal result…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-29 Jerome P. Gauntlett , Julian Sonner , Daniel Waldram

Electron stars are fluids of charged fermions in Anti-de Sitter spacetime. They are candidate holographic duals for gauge theories at finite charge density and exhibit emergent Lifshitz scaling at low energies. This paper computes in detail…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Sean A. Hartnoll , Diego M. Hofman , David Vegh

The surface of W(110) exhibits a Dirac-cone-like surface state with $d$ character within a spin-orbit-induced symmetry gap. As a function of wave vector parallel to the surface, it shows nearly massless energy dispersion and a pronounced…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. Miyamoto , A. Kimura , K. Kuroda , T. Okuda , K. Shimada , H. Namatame , M. Taniguchi , M. Donath

Man-made artificial graphene has attracted significant attention in the past few years due to the possibilities to construct designer Dirac fermions with unexpected topological properties and applications in nanoelectronics. Here we use a…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-12-10 Matti Ropo , Sami Paavilainen , Jaakko Akola , Esa Räsänen