Holographic Viscoelastic Phases Of Matter: From Fluids To Solids And More

2019-02-20 Dr Matteo Baggioli, Instituto de Fisica Teorica (IFT), Universidad Autonoma de Mad

ABSTRACT :

Holographic techniques have been widely and successfully used to describe strongly coupled fluids.In this talk I will review how bottom-up holographic models can be extended to include also solid and especially viscoelastic phases of matter. I will show how to formalize the (visco)-elastic response and I will discuss in details the vibrational phononic degrees of freedom from an holographic perspective. Finally I will apply the formalism to several condensed matter open questions. If time permits: 1) I will show the connections to the effective field theory (EFT) methods 2) I will discuss also how these ideas have triggered relevant developments in soft matter theory and experiments dealing with the glassy anomalies and the low frequency elastic response in liquids.

Event Name

Seminars

Place

HSB 203

Start Time

14:00

End Time

15:00

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