dc.contributor.author | Herzog, Christopher P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kovtun, Pavel | |
dc.contributor.author | Sachdev, Subir | |
dc.contributor.author | Son, Dam Thanh | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-27T13:15:24Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Herzog, 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.issn | 1550-2368 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1550-7998 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41417263 | * |
dc.description.abstract | We 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.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | American Physical Society | |
dash.license | LAA | |
dc.title | Quantum critical transport, duality, and M theory | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | |
dc.relation.journal | Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology | |
dash.depositing.author | Sachdev, Subir::01f180804aa3dee76221c3e9d66397f5::600 | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-27T13:15:24Z | |
dash.workflow.comments | 1Science Serial ID 77063 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.085020 | |
dash.source.volume | 75;8 | |