Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2019
Volume 64, Number 2
Monday–Friday, March 4–8, 2019; Boston, Massachusetts
Session B06: Cuprates and Related
11:15 AM–2:03 PM,
Monday, March 4, 2019
BCEC
Room: 109A
Sponsoring
Unit:
DCMP
Chair: Jasminka Terzic, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Abstract: B06.00013 : Anomalous Dimensions for Conserved Currents from Holographic Dilatonic Models to Superconductiv*
1:39 PM–1:51 PM
Presenter:
Philip Phillips
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Authors:
Philip Phillips
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Kridsanaphong Limtragool
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Gabriele La Nave
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
It is well known that the dimension of conserved currents is determined simply from dimensional analysis. However, a recent proposal is that what is strange about the conserved currents in the strange metal in the cuprate superconductors is that they carry anomalous dimensions. The basic model invoked to exhibit such behaviour is a holographic dilatonic one in which the field strength couples to the radial coordinate. I will show that the anomalous dimension in such cases arises from a fractional electromagnetism[1] that can be thought of as a general loop-hole in Noether's second theorem. The general mechanism operative is a mass term in the IR that couples to the UV current. I will also show that even the Pippard kernel invoked to explain the Meissner effect in traditional low-temperature superconductors is a special case of the non-local action found here.
[1] G. La Nave and P. Phillips, ``Anomalous Dimensions for Boundary Conserved Currents in Holography via the Caffarelli-Silvestri Mechanism for p-forms,'' to appear in Comm. Math. Phys. (2019).
*NSF DMR-1461952
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