CMTC Seminar

Date
Tue, Dec 13, 2016 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Location
2205 John S. Toll Physics Building

Description

Speaker: Subir Sachdev (Harvard)

Title: SYK models, strange metals, and black holes

Abstract: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models provide solvable realizations of diffusive metallic states without quasiparticle excitations. Explicit holographic duals of the SYK models can be constructed, in terms of black holes with a near-horizon AdS2 geometry. I will also compare the SYK models with more realistic models of the strange metals in the cuprates. A common thread connecting these models is the remarkable connection between many-body quantum chaos and diffusive thermal transport in states of quantum matter without quasiparticle excitations.

Location: 2205 John S. Toll Physics Building

Host: Xiao Li & Ching-Kai Chiu

http://www.physics.umd.edu/cmtc/seminars.html