Seminar series
Date
Mon, 27 Feb 2012
Time
12:00 -
13:00
Location
L3
Speaker
Aristomenis Donos
Organisation
Imperial College London
The AdS/CFT correspondence is a powerful tool to analyse strongly coupled quantum field
theories. Over the past few years there has been a surge of activity aimed at finding
possible applications to condensed matter systems. One focus has been to holographically
realise various kinds of phases via the construction of fascinating new classes of black
hole solutions. In this framework, I will discuss the possibility of describing finite
temperature phase transitions leading to spontaneous breaking of translational invariance of
the dual field theory at strong coupling. Along with the general setup I will also discuss
specific string/M theory embeddings of the corresponding symmetry breaking modes leading to
the description of such phases.