Quantum Electron Star

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Allais, Andrea; McGreevy, John; Suh, Sunok Josephine
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Abstract
We construct and probe a holographic description of a state of matter that results from coupling a Fermi liquid to a relativistic conformal field theory (CFT). The bulk solution is described by a quantum gas of fermions supported from collapse into the gravitational well of anti-de Sitter space by their own electrostatic repulsion. A physical interpretation of our result is that, in the probe limit studied here, the Landau quasiparticles survive this coupling to a CFT.
Date issued
2012-06
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/72474
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Journal
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Allais, Andrea, John McGreevy, and S. Suh. “Quantum Electron Star.” Physical Review Letters 108.23 (2012): 231602. © 2012 American Physical Society.
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ISSN
0031-9007
1079-7114
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