Gravity Duals for Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories
Abstract
We attempt to generalize the anti de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence to nonrelativistic conformal field theories which are invariant under Galilean transformations. Such systems govern ultracold atoms at unitarity, nucleon scattering in some channels, and, more generally, a family of universality classes of quantum critical behavior. We construct a family of metrics which realize these symmetries as isometries. They are solutions of gravity with a negative cosmological constant coupled to pressureless dust. We discuss realizations of the dust, which include a bulk superconductor. We develop the holographic dictionary and find two-point correlators of the correct form. A strange aspect of the correspondence is that the bulk geometry has two extra noncompact dimensions.
- Publication:
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Physical Review Letters
- Pub Date:
- August 2008
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.061601
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0804.4053
- Bibcode:
- 2008PhRvL.101f1601B
- Keywords:
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- 11.25.Tq;
- 03.75.Ss;
- Gauge/string duality;
- Degenerate Fermi gases;
- High Energy Physics - Theory;
- Condensed Matter - Other;
- Nuclear Theory
- E-Print:
- 12 pages