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    TH String Theory Seminar

    A Holographic Superconductor (note unusual date!!!)

    by Christopher P. Herzog (Princeton University)

    → Europe/Zurich
    TH Theory Conference Room (CERN)

    TH Theory Conference Room

    CERN
    Description
    The notion of a quantum critical point may be important for understanding certain low temperature properties of real world materials such as high temperature superconductors. The effective field theory description of a quantum critical point may be strongly interacting and conformal. Such systems are well adapted for study holographically through the AdS/CFT correspondence. We will use the correspondence to model the large Nernst effect in high $T_c$ superconductors and also to model a superconducting phase transition.
    Organised by

    Manfred Herbst