Jan Zaanen

Professor of Theoretical Physics

Instituut-Lorentz for Theoretical Physics
Leiden University, The Netherlands

13-18 June 2010

El Profesor Jan Zaanen participó en el "XVIth European Workshop on String Theory", en el que pronunció la siguiente conferencia: The AdS to condensed matter correspondence

The case is developing that the AdS/CFT correspondence might be the long sought for mathematical key to some of the big mysteries of quantum condensed matter physics. Due to a concerted experimental eort during the last twenty years it has become clear that strongly interacting electron systems as formed in solids can show behaviors that are utterly mysterious departing from the established principles of conventional quantum eld theory: the strange metals found in cuprates, iron pnictides and heavy fermion intermetallics, with their remarkable capacity for exotic ordering phenomena including the famous superconductivity at a high temperature. Holography appears to yield some astonishing insights in these quantum critical fermionic systems that I will review in this talk: Planckian dissipation, the holographic normal- and critical Fermi-liquids, the zero temperature entropy catastrophy and holographic superconductivity.