Holographic non-Fermi-liquid fixed points

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1941, 2011, Pages 1640-1669

  Faulkner, Tom ^a   Iqbal, Nabil ^b   Liu, Hong ^b   McGreevy, John ^b   Vegh, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Black holes; Gauge gravity duality; Non Fermi liquids

Indexed keywords

FERMI LIQUIDS; GRAVITATION; LIQUIDS; SPECTROSCOPY; STARS;

BLACK HOLES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FINITE DENSITY; FIXED POINT THEORY; FIXED POINTS; GAUGE/GRAVITY DUALITY; INTERACTING FERMIONS; LANDAU THEORY; MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; NON-FERMI LIQUIDS; SELF ENERGY; SINGLE-PARTICLE SPECTRAL FUNCTION; THEORY OF GRAVITY;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79955368598     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0354     Document Type: Article

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