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Topological invariants for holographic semimetals
We study the behavior of fermion spectral functions for the holographic
topological Weyl and nodal line semimetals. We calculate the topological
invariants from the Green functions of both holographic semimetals using the
topological Hamiltonian method, which calculates topological invariants of
strongly interacting systems from an effective Hamiltonian system with the same
topological structure. Nontrivial topological invariants for both systems have
been obtained and the presence of nontrivial topological invariants further
supports the topological nature of the holographic semimetals.Comment: 39 pages, 11 figures, 1 table; v2: match published versio
Topological nodal line semimetals in holography
We show a holographic model of a strongly coupled topological nodal line
semimetal (NLSM) and find that the NLSM phase could go through a quantum phase
transition to a topologically trivial state. The dual fermion spectral function
shows that there are multiple Fermi surfaces each of which is a closed nodal
loop in the NLSM phase. The topological structure in the bulk is induced by the
IR interplay between the dual mass operator and the operator that deforms the
topology of the Fermi surface. We propose a practical framework for building
various strongly coupled topological semimetals in holography, which indicates
that at strong coupling topologically nontrivial semimetal states generally
exist.Comment: 21 pages, 5 figures; v2: match published versio
Transport Coefficients from Extremal Gauss-Bonnet Black Holes
We calculate the shear viscosity of strongly coupled field theories dual to
Gauss-Bonnet gravity at zero temperature with nonzero chemical potential. We
find that the ratio of the shear viscosity over the entropy density is
, which is in accordance with the zero temperature limit of the ratio
at nonzero temperatures. We also calculate the DC conductivity for this system
at zero temperature and find that the real part of the DC conductivity vanishes
up to a delta function, which is similar to the result in Einstein gravity. We
show that at zero temperature, we can still have the conclusion that the shear
viscosity is fully determined by the effective coupling of transverse gravitons
in a kind of theories that the effective action of transverse gravitons can be
written into a form of minimally coupled scalars with a deformed effective
coupling.Comment: 23 pages, no figure; v2, refs added; v3, more refs added; v4, version
to appear in JHE
Shear Viscosity from the Effective Coupling of Gravitons
We review the progress in the holographic calculation of shear viscosity for
strongly coupled field theories. We focus on the calculation of shear viscosity
from the effective coupling of transverse gravitons and present some explicit
examples.Comment: 10 pages, invited presentation for the 9th Asia-Pacific International
Conference On Gravitation And Astrophysics (ICGA 9), June 28-July 2, 2009,
Wuhan, China; for the proceedings to be published by World Scientifi
Bose-Fermi competition in holographic metals
We study the holographic dual of a finite density system with both bosonic
and fermionic degrees of freedom. There is no evidence for a universal
bose-dominated ground state. Instead, depending on the relative conformal
weights the preferred groundstate is either pure AdS-Reissner-Nordstrom, a
holographic superconductor, an electron star, or a novel mixed state that is
best characterized as a hairy electron star.Comment: 28 pages, 14 figures; v2, ref added, version to appear in JHE
BCS instabilities of electron stars to holographic superconductors
We study fermion pairing and condensation towards an ordered state in
strongly coupled quantum critical systems with a holographic AdS/CFT dual. On
the gravity side this is modeled by a system of charged fermion interacting
through a BCS coupling. At finite density such a system has a BCS instability.
We combine the relativistic version of mean-field BCS with the semi-classical
fluid approximation for the many-body state of fermions. The resulting
groundstate is the AdS equivalent of a charged neutron star with a
superconducting core. The spectral function of the fermions confirms that the
ground state is ordered through the condensation of the pair operator. A
natural variant of the BCS star is shown to exist where the gap field couples
Stueckelberg-like to the AdS Maxwell field. This enhances the tendency of the
system to superconduct.Comment: 35 pages, 8 figures; v2, minor change, published versio
Anomalous magnetoconductivity and relaxation times in holography
We study the magnetoconductivity induced by the axial anomaly via the chiral
magnetic effect in strongly coupled holographic models. An important ingredient
in our models is that the axial charge is non-conserved beyond the axial
anomaly. We achieve this either by explicit symmetry breaking via a
non-vanishing non-normalisable mode of an axially charged scalar or using a
Stuckelberg field to make the AdS-bulk gauge field massive. The DC
magnetoconductivites can be calculated analytically. They take a universal form
in terms of gauge field mass at the horizon and quadratic dependence on the
magnetic field. The axial charge relaxation time grows linearly with magnetic
field in the large regime. Most strikingly positive magnetoconductivity is
still present even when the relaxation times are short and the axial charge can not be thought of as an approximate symmetry. In
the explicit breaking model, we also observe that the axial magnetic
conductivity in the limit of strong symmetry breaking approaches the same
universal value as for anomalous holographic superconductors in the zero
temperature limit.Comment: 44 pages, 12 figures; v2: refs added, sec. 2.3 expande
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