Holographic Phonons

We present a class of holographic massive gravity models that realize a spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry-they exhibit transverse phonon modes whose speed relates to the elastic shear modulus according to elasticity theory. Massive gravity theories thus emerge as versatile and convenien...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physical review letters 2018-04, Vol.120 (17), p.171602-171602, Article 171602
Hauptverfasser: Alberte, Lasma, Ammon, Martin, Jiménez-Alba, Amadeo, Baggioli, Matteo, Pujolàs, Oriol
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Zusammenfassung:We present a class of holographic massive gravity models that realize a spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry-they exhibit transverse phonon modes whose speed relates to the elastic shear modulus according to elasticity theory. Massive gravity theories thus emerge as versatile and convenient theories to model generic types of translational symmetry breaking: explicit, spontaneous, and a mixture of both. The nature of the breaking is encoded in the radial dependence of the graviton mass. As an application of the model, we compute the temperature dependence of the shear modulus and find that it features a glasslike melting transition.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.171602