Scientific Seminars

Bringing Holography to the Earth

Matteo Baggioli
ITP, UAB (Spain)

2019-03-21    15:00    Dip. di Fisica, UNIMI, Via Celoria - Aula Consiglio

This talk is intended to be a pedagogical review of string theory inspired holographic methods for condensed matter known as AdS-CMT. I will present the fundamental pillars of the tool and I will motivate why these methods could be useful for low energy condensed matter systems. I will describe some of the major successes of the framework which can be provocatively thought as the (few for the moment) predictions of string theory. I will discuss in more details the formulation of the duality in terms of weakly coupled gravitational theories where no stringy objects are involved. I will then proceed showing as an exercise how to compute the electric conductivity in holography systems which break translational invariance. Finally I will comment on the status of the field and on more recent and intriguing connections with diverse physics areas. No prior knowledge of String Theory or AdS-CFT is required. Genuine curiosity is required due to the high level of interdisciplinarity of the topic.