Zero sound in strange metallic holography

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2010)086zbMATH Open1291.81322arXiv1007.0590OpenAlexW2107951293MaRDI QIDQ2250508FDOQ2250508

Authors: Carlos Hoyos, Andy O'bannon, Jackson M. S. Wu 

Publication date: 7 July 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: One way to model the strange metal phase of certain materials is via a holographic description in terms of probe D-branes in a Lifshitz spacetime, characterised by a dynamical exponent z. The background geometry is dual to a strongly-interacting quantum critical theory while the probe D-branes are dual to a finite density of charge carriers that can exhibit the characteristic properties of strange metals. We compute holographically the low-frequency and low-momentum form of the charge density and current retarded Green's functions in these systems for massless charge carriers. The results reveal a quasi-particle excitation when z<2, which in analogy with Landau Fermi liquids we call zero sound. The real part of the dispersion relation depends on momentum k linearly, while the imaginary part goes as k^2/z. When z is greater than or equal to 2 the zero sound is not a well-defined quasi-particle. We also compute the frequency-dependent conductivity in arbitrary spacetime dimensions. Using that as a measure of the charge current spectral function, we find that the zero sound appears only when the spectral function consists of a single delta function at zero frequency.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.0590

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zbMATH Keywords

gauge-gravity correspondenceAdS-CFT correspondencebrane dynamics in gauge theoriesD-branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Statistical mechanics of metals (82D35) Green's functions for elliptic equations (35J08) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27)

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