CMSA Condensed Matter/Math Seminar: Linear in temperature resistivity in the limit of zero temperature from the time reparameterization soft mode

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April 23, 2020 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
via Zoom Video Conferencing
Speaker:

Haoyu Guo - Harvard University

The most puzzling aspect of the `strange metal' behavior of correlated electron compounds is that the linear in temperature resistivity often extends down to low temperatures, lower than natural microscopic energy scales. We consider recently proposed deconfined critical points (or phases) in models of
electrons in large dimension lattices with random nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The criticality is in the class of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models, and exhibits a time reparameterization soft mode representing quantum gravity in dual holographic theories. We compute the low temperature resistivity in a large $M$ limit of models with SU($M$) spin symmetry, and find that the dominant temperature dependence arises from this soft mode. The resistivity is linear in temperature down to zero temperature at the critical point, with a co-efficient universally proportional to the product of the residual resistivity and the co-efficient of the linear in temperature specific heat. We argue that the time reparameterization soft mode offers a promising and generic mechanism for resolving the strange metal puzzle.

via Zoom Video Conferencing: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/977347126