Speaker
Koenraad Schalm
Description
A number of very recent experiments on strange metals in the
cuprates have again highlighted the anomalous behavior of
these materials compared to ordinary Fermi-liquid metals.
Almost too good to be true, the displayed behavior shows
remarkable similarities with the qualitative predictions
from holography. I will briefly review these experiments
probing the single electron spectrum, charge transport
linear-in-T resistivity, charge density waves and their
independence on doping, and density-density correlations.
For each I will highlight why the results correspond with
the predictions of holography based on a quantum critical
state coexisting with order.
