Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography
Thermoelectric transport in disordered metals without quasiparticles: The Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models and holography
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DOI:
10.1103/physrevb.95.155131
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发表时间:
2017-04-18
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Sachdev, Subir
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作者:
Davison, Richard A.;Fu, Wenbo;Sachdev, Subir
We compute the thermodynamic properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models of fermions with a conserved fermion number Q. We extend a previously proposed Schwarzian effective action to include a phase field, and this describes the low-temperature energy and Q fluctuations. We obtain higher-dimensional generalizations of the SYK models which display disordered metallic states without quasiparticle excitations, and we deduce their thermoelectric transport coefficients. We also examine the corresponding properties of Einstein-Maxwell-axion theories on black brane geometries which interpolate from either AdS(4) or AdS(5) to an AdS(2) x R-2 or AdS(2) x R-3 near-horizon geometry. These provide holographic descriptions of nonquasiparticle metallic states without momentum conservation. We find a precise match between low-temperature transport and thermodynamics of the SYK and holographic models. In both models, the Seebeck transport coefficient is exactly equal to the Q derivative of the entropy. For the SYK models, quantum chaos, as characterized by the butterfly velocity and the Lyapunov rate, universally determines the thermal diffusivity, but not the charge diffusivity.