Speaker
Nicolas Chagnet
Description
We study charged relativistic hydrodynamics driven by an external chemical potential made periodic in order to mimick the charge modulation generated by an ionic lattice. The background periodicity fluctuations are mixing Bloch waves rather than independent single momentum Fourier waves. The modes at momenta separated by integer multiples of the modulation wavevector interact and lead to novel physical effects which bear resemblance to the physics of cuprates. We connect our results to explicit realizations in AdS/CFT models with an outlook towards condensed matter applications.
