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Incoherent transport in clean quantum critical metals

Richard A. Davison, Blaise Goutéraux (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives), Sean A. Hartnoll (Stanford University)

Journal of High Energy Physics
DOI: 10.1007/jhep10(2015)112 (Physics and Astronomy)
License: CC BY

Abstract: In a clean quantum critical metal, and in the absence of umklapp, most d.c. conductivities are formally infinite due to momentum conservation. However, there is a particular combination of the charge and heat currents which has a finite, universal conductivity. In this paper, we describe the physics of this conductivity σ Q in quantum critical metals obtained by charge doping a strongly interacting conformal field theory. We show that it satisfies an Einstein relation and controls the diffusivity of a conserved charge in the metal. We compute σ Q in a class of theories with holographic gravitational duals. Finally, we show how the temperature scaling of σ Q depends on certain critical exponents characterizing the quantum critical metal. The holographic results are found to be reproduced by the scaling analysis, with the charge density operator becoming marginal in the emergent low energy quantum critical theory.

Published on 01 Oct. 2015