The AdS/CFT correspondence: A window into strongly-correlated systems

Authors

  • Kevin John Grosvenor ⋅ PH National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

The AdS/CFT correspondence, also known as the holographic principle, is a powerful theoretical framework that relates two seemingly disparate fields: string theory in Anti-de Sitter (AdS) space and conformal field theory (CFT) in one fewer dimension. This correspondence is an example of a weak/strong duality which gives us a window into the world of strongly-coupled quantum field theories (QFTs) describing strongly-correlated systems by passing to a weakly-coupled gravitational system. I will give an overview of the AdS/CFT correspondence and apply this duality to a classic example of strongly-correlated electrons, the strange metal, which is a class of material that exhibits unusual thermoelectric transport properties. I will reproduce some of the key measured transport properties of the strange metal by placing it on an explicit lattice and numerically solving the dual gravitational system.

About the Speaker

Kevin John Grosvenor, National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman

Kevin John Grosvenor is currently a faculty member at the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman. He obtained his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley under Petr Horava. He was a Halwachs-Roentgen Fellow at the University of Wuerzburg and the Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany. He was also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Lorentz Institute, Leiden University.

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SPP-2024-INV-1H-01

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Invited Presentations

Published

2024-07-02

How to Cite

[1]
KJ Grosvenor, The AdS/CFT correspondence: A window into strongly-correlated systems, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 42, SPP-2024-INV-1H-01 (2024). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2024-INV-1H-01.