Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals

Name: Quantum statistical mechanics of charged black holes and strange metals
Start: 2022-10-05T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2022-10-05T17:00:00-04:00
Location: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

CMSA EVENTS: CMSA COLLOQUIUM

When: October 5, 2022

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Where: CMSA, 20 Garden St, G10

Address: 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States

Speaker: Professor Subir Sachedev

The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model was introduced as a toy model of interacting fermions without any particle-like excitations. I will describe how this toy model yields the universal low energy quantum theory of generic charged black holes in asymptotically 3+1 dimensional Minkowski space. I will also discuss how extensions of the SYK model yield a realistic theory of the strange metal phase of correlated electron systems.