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.
Author
Emiliano Imeroni
(ULB-TH)
