A strongly coupled anyon material

We use alternative quantisation of the D3-D5 system to explore properties of a strongly coupled anyon material at finite density and temperature. We study the transport properties of the material and find both diffusion and massive holographic zero sound modes. By studying the anyon number conductivity we also find evidence for the anyonic analogue of the metal-insulator transition.Comment: 19 pages, 6 figure

Holographic plasma and anyonic fluids

We use alternative quantisation of the $D3/D5$ system to explore properties of a strongly coupled charged plasma and strongly coupled anyonic fluids. The $S$-transform of the $D3/D5$ system is used as a model for charged matter interacting with a U(1) gauge field in the large coupling regime, and we compute the dispersion relationship of the propagating electromagnetic modes as the density and temperature are changed. A more general $SL(2,\mathbb{Z})$ transformation gives a strongly interacting anyonic fluid, and we study its transport properties as we change the statistics of the anyons and the background magnetic field.Comment: 26 pages, 26 figures, v2: typos corrected and refs adde

Leading order magnetic field dependence of conductivities in anomalous hydrodynamics

We show that literature results claimed for the magnetic field dependence of the longitudinal conductivity in anomalous first-order hydrodynamics are frame dependent at this derivative order. In particular, we focus on $(3+1)$-dimensional hydrodynamics in the presence of a constant ${\cal O}(\partial)$ magnetic field with a $U(1)$ chiral anomaly and demonstrate that, for constitutive relations up to and including order one in derivatives, the anomaly drops out of the longitudinal conductivity. In particular, magnetic field dependent terms that were previously found in the literature only enter the non-zero frequency thermoelectric conductivities through explicitly frame dependent pieces indicating that they are not physical. This issue can be avoided entirely by incorporating the magnetic field into the fluid's equilibrium state.Comment: V2: Several Clarifications added, title changed, Version to appear on Physical review

CFT dual of the AdS Dirichlet problem: Fluid/Gravity on cut-off surfaces

We study the gravitational Dirichlet problem in AdS spacetimes with a view to understanding the boundary CFT interpretation. We define the problem as bulk Einstein's equations with Dirichlet boundary conditions on fixed timelike cut-off hypersurface. Using the fluid/gravity correspondence, we argue that one can determine non-linear solutions to this problem in the long wavelength regime. On the boundary we find a conformal fluid with Dirichlet constitutive relations, viz., the fluid propagates on a `dynamical' background metric which depends on the local fluid velocities and temperature. This boundary fluid can be re-expressed as an emergent hypersurface fluid which is non-conformal but has the same value of the shear viscosity as the boundary fluid. The hypersurface dynamics arises as a collective effect, wherein effects of the background are transmuted into the fluid degrees of freedom. Furthermore, we demonstrate that this collective fluid is forced to be non-relativistic below a critical cut-off radius in AdS to avoid acausal sound propagation with respect to the hypersurface metric. We further go on to show how one can use this set-up to embed the recent constructions of flat spacetime duals to non-relativistic fluid dynamics into the AdS/CFT correspondence, arguing that a version of the membrane paradigm arises naturally when the boundary fluid lives on a background Galilean manifold.Comment: 71 pages, 2 figures. v2: Errors in bulk metrics dual to non-relativistic fluids (both on cut-off surface and on the boundary) have been corrected. New appendix with general results added. Fixed typos. 82 pages, 2 figure