Emergent gauge fields in holographic strange metals

ORAL

Abstract

Using gauge/gravity duality, strange metallic phases with non-trivial temperature scalings of eg the resistivity are obtained from black hole spacetimes with an emergent critical infrared geometry. In this talk, I will argue that they are described by an effective field theory of gapless bosonic fields coupled to emergent, non-local gauge fields. I will comment on the relation to the Luttinger theorem and the presence of fractionalized charged degrees of freedom.

*This work is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No758759) andby the STFC Ernest Rutherford Grant ST/R004455/1.

Presenters

  • Blaise Gouteraux

    • Ecole Polytechnique

Authors

  • Blaise Gouteraux

    • Ecole Polytechnique
  • Eric Mefford

    • University of Victoria
  • Richard A Davison

    • Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK