Absence of power-law mid-infrared conductivity in gravitational crystals

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2015)163MaRDI QIDQ2636029zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Brandon W. Langley, Garrett Vanacore, Philip Phillips

Publication date 31 May 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.06769

zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencegauge-gravity correspondenceholography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of crystals (82D25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Abstract: We compute conductivities of strongly-interacting and non-uniform charge densities dual to inhomogeneous anti-de Sitter--black hole spacetimes. Backreacting bulk scalars with periodic boundary profiles, we construct generalizations of Reissner-Nordstr"om-AdS that interpolate between those used in two previous studies --- one that reports power-law scaling for the boundary optical conductivity and one that does not. We find no evidence for power-law scaling of the conductivity, thereby corroborating the previous negative result that gravitational crystals are insufficient to generate the power-law mid-infrared conductivity observed in cuprate superconductors.

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