Speaker
Emiliano Imeroni
(ULB-TH)
Description
Many experiments in condensed matter physics deal with "quantum critical" systems that are difficult to describe due to the absence of well-defined quasiparticles and the presence of strongly interacting excitations. The AdS/CFT duality provides new holographic methods to study these systems, by for instance mapping their transport properties to properties of black holes. We give a pedagogic overview of this approach to condensed matter physics, illustrating the main concepts by means of examples such as holographic superconductors and systems of cold atoms.
Primary author
Emiliano Imeroni
(ULB-TH)
