19 research outputs found
Mass Generation and Symmetry Breaking in Chern-Simons Supergravity
We argue that the quartic fermionic potential of five-dimensional
Chern-Simons supergravity induces spontaneous symmetry breaking, in a
phenomenon bearing a close connection with the Nambu and Jona-Lasinio model.Comment: 5 pages, 1 eps figure. Corrected and added reference
Condensed matter and AdS/CFT
I review two classes of strong coupling problems in condensed matter physics,
and describe insights gained by application of the AdS/CFT correspondence. The
first class concerns non-zero temperature dynamics and transport in the
vicinity of quantum critical points described by relativistic field theories. I
describe how relativistic structures arise in models of physical interest,
present results for their quantum critical crossover functions and
magneto-thermoelectric hydrodynamics. The second class concerns symmetry
breaking transitions of two-dimensional systems in the presence of gapless
electronic excitations at isolated points or along lines (i.e. Fermi surfaces)
in the Brillouin zone. I describe the scaling structure of a recent theory of
the Ising-nematic transition in metals, and discuss its possible connection to
theories of Fermi surfaces obtained from simple AdS duals.Comment: 39 pages, 12 figures; Lectures at the 5th Aegean summer school, "From
gravity to thermal gauge theories: the AdS/CFT correspondence", and the De
Sitter Lecture Series in Theoretical Physics 2009, University of Groninge
Linking the Practice Environment to Nurses' Job Satisfaction Through Nurse-Physician Communication
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/74776/1/j.1547-5069.2005.00063.x.pd