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« The metals and insulators contained in massive gravity »

O. Pujolas
Univ. Autonoma Barcelona (Barcelone, Espagne)

Massive gravity is holographically dual to `realistic' materials with momentum relaxation. The dual graviton potential encodes the phonon dynamics and it allows for a much broader diversity than considered so far. We construct a simple family of isotropic and homogeneous materials that exhibit an interaction-driven Metal-Insulator transition. The transition is triggered by the formation of polarons -- phonon-electron quasi-bound states that dominate the conductivities, shifting the spectral weight above a mass gap. We characterize the polaron gap, width and dispersion.
lundi 26 janvier 2015 - 11:00
Salle des séminaires Évry Schatzman
Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
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