Thursday, November 8, 2012

1211.1381 (Niko Jokela et al.)

Fluctuations and instabilities of a holographic metal    [PDF]

Niko Jokela, Matti Jarvinen, Matthew Lippert
We analyze the quasinormal modes of the D2-D8' model of 2+1-dimensional, strongly-coupled, charged fermions in a background magnetic field and at nonzero density. The model is known to include a quantum Hall phase with integer filling fraction. As expected, we find a hydrodynamical diffusion mode at small momentum and the nonzero-temperature holographic zero sound, which becomes massive above a critical magnetic field. We confirm the previously-known thermodynamic instability. In addition, we discover an instability at low temperature, large mass, and in a charge density and magnetic field range near the quantum Hall phase to an inhomogeneous striped phase.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1381

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