The holographic dual of thermoelectric transport in SYK models

ORAL

Abstract

Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models are models of fermions with infinite-ranged, random interactions. These models exhibit compressible, metallic states with no quasiparticle excitations. I will show that relations between the thermoelectric conductivities of these states are quantitatively the same as those found by studying charged black holes with AdS$_2$ geometries near their event horizon. This is evidence that, at low energies, SYK models have a dual, holographic description as a theory of gravity.

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Authors

  • Richard Davison

    • Harvard University
    • Department of Physics, Harvard University

  • Wenbo Fu

    • Harvard University

  • Yingfei Gu

    • Stanford University

  • Kristan Jensen

    • San Francisco State University

  • Subir Sachdev

    • Harvard University