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dc.contributor.authorHerzog, Christopher P.
dc.contributor.authorKovtun, Pavel
dc.contributor.authorSachdev, Subir
dc.contributor.authorSon, Dam Thanh
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-27T13:15:24Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.citationHerzog, Christopher P., Pavel Kovtun, Subir Sachdev, and Dam Thanh Son. 2007. “Quantum Critical Transport, Duality, and M Theory.” Physical Review D 75 (8). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.75.085020.
dc.identifier.issn1550-2368
dc.identifier.issn1550-7998
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41417263*
dc.description.abstractWe consider charge transport properties of 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories at nonzero temperature. For theories with only Abelian U(1) charges, we describe the action of particle-vortex duality on the hydrodynamic-to-collisionless crossover function: this leads to powerful functional constraints for self-dual theories. For N=8 supersymmetric, SU(N) Yang-Mills theory at the conformal fixed point, exact hydrodynamic-to-collisionless crossover functions of the SO(8) R-currents can be obtained in the large N limit by applying the anti-de Sitter/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence to M theory. In the gravity theory, fluctuating currents are mapped to fluctuating gauge fields in the background of a black hole in 3+1 dimensional anti-de Sitter space. The electromagnetic self-duality of the 3+1 dimensional theory implies that the correlators of the R-currents obey a functional constraint similar to that found from particle-vortex duality in 2+1 dimensional Abelian theories. Thus the 2+1 dimensional, superconformal Yang Mills theory obeys a "holographic self-duality" in the large N limit, and perhaps more generally.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Society
dash.licenseLAA
dc.titleQuantum critical transport, duality, and M theory
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.description.versionAccepted Manuscript
dc.relation.journalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology
dash.depositing.authorSachdev, Subir::01f180804aa3dee76221c3e9d66397f5::600
dc.date.available2019-09-27T13:15:24Z
dash.workflow.comments1Science Serial ID 77063
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085020
dash.source.volume75;8


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