Impure AdS/CFT

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2008-01-11

arxiv.org/abs/0801.1693v2

Phys.Rev.D77:106009,2008

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

26 pages, 11 figures; v2 ref added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.77.106009

We study momentum relaxation due to dilute, weak impurities in a strongly coupled CFT, a truncation of the M2 brane theory. Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we compute the relaxation time scale as a function of the background magnetic field B and charge density \rho. The theory admits two different types of impurities. We find that for magnetic impurities, momentum relaxation due to the impurity is suppressed by a background B or \rho. For electric impurities, due to an underlying instability in the theory towards an ordered phase, the inverse relaxation time scale increases dramatically near \sqrt{B^2 + \rho^2/\sigma^2_0} \sim 21 T^2. We compute the Nernst response for the impure theory, and comment on similarities with recent measurements in superconductors.

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