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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B Année : 2017

Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography

Richard A. Davison
  • Fonction : Auteur
Wenbo Fu
  • Fonction : Auteur
Yingfei Gu
  • Fonction : Auteur
Kristan Jensen
  • Fonction : Auteur
Subir Sachdev
  • Fonction : Auteur

Résumé

We compute the thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models of fermions with a conserved fermion number Q. We extend a previously proposed Schwarzian effective action to include a phase field, and this describes the low-temperature energy and Q fluctuations. We obtain higher-dimensional generalizations of the SYK models which display disordered metallic states without quasiparticle excitations, and we deduce their thermoelectric transport coefficients. We also examine the corresponding properties of Einstein-Maxwell-axion theories on black brane geometries which interpolate from either AdS4 or AdS5 to an AdS2×R2 or AdS2×R3 near-horizon geometry. These provide holographic descriptions of nonquasiparticle metallic states without momentum conservation. We find a precise match between low-temperature transport and thermodynamics of the SYK and holographic models. In both models, the Seebeck transport coefficient is exactly equal to the Q derivative of the entropy. For the SYK models, quantum chaos, as characterized by the butterfly velocity and the Lyapunov rate, universally determines the thermal diffusivity, but not the charge diffusivity.

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hal-01554831 , version 1 (03-07-2017)

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Richard A. Davison, Wenbo Fu, Antoine Georges, Yingfei Gu, Kristan Jensen, et al.. Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography. Physical Review B, 2017, 95 (15), pp.155131. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.95.155131⟩. ⟨hal-01554831⟩
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