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Undergraduate Physics Seminar: "Black Holes in a Condensed Matter Laboratory", David Balut

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Department of Physics
Location
Loomis 464
Virtual
wifi event
Date
Mar 27, 2025   5:00 pm  
Speaker
David Balut
Contact
Tushar Mohan
E-Mail
tusharm4@illinois.edu
Phone
848-702-1630
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Originating Calendar
Physics - Undergraduate Student Events

The most important discovery from studies of quantum gravity is the AdS/CFT correspondence, which says that a strongly correlated quantum field theory in d spacetime dimensions with conformal symmetry is equivalent, or “dual,” to a theory of classical gravity in d + 1 dimensions. First, I will contextualize the need for methods like AdS/CFT to study strongly correlated physics in condensed matter. Next, I discuss experimental realizations of AdS/CFT predictions in the low energy response of “strange metals” meaning they belong to a class of materials known as “Holographic Quantum Matter”. I will show that studying entanglement metrics in holographic strange metals reveals mixing of the high energy and low energy degrees of freedom known as UV/IR mixing. Lastly, I present my most recent work, which shows that experimental observations in strange metals, such as a high energy “continuum” and UV/IR mixing, are dual to deformed two-dimensional black hole spacetimes.

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