15.04.2013 (Monday)

Holographic type II Goldstone modes

Informal Seminar Luis Melgar (IFT, UAM)

at:
14:00 IC
room B741
abstract:

We study a holographic model dual to a CFT in 2+1 dimensions at finite temperature and chemical potential with a global U(2) symmetry. At large enough chemical potential spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs and breaks the symmetry to U(1). The non-abelian nature of the symmetry and the explicit Lorentz breaking by the chemical potential imply the presence of an ungapped mode with quadratic dispersion relation in the broken phase. Such modes are called Type II Goldstone bosons and have several distinguished features that we study within the framework of this holographic model.