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ANNALS OF PHYSICS
Volume 418, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2020.168202
Keywords
Linear in temperature resistivity; SYK model; Time reparameterization symmetry; Deconfined criticality
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- U.S. Department of Energy [DE-SC0019030]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0019030] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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The most puzzling aspect of the 'strange metal' behavior of correlated electron compounds is that the linear in temperature resistivity often extends down to low temperatures, lower than natural microscopic energy scales. We consider recently proposed deconfined critical points (or phases) in models of electrons in large dimension lattices with random nearest-neighbor exchange interactions. The criticality is in the class of SachdevYe-Kitaev models, and exhibits a time reparameterization soft mode representing gravity in dual holographic theories. We compute the low temperature resistivity in a large M limit of models with SU(M) spin symmetry, and find that the dominant temperature dependence arises from this soft mode. The resistivity is linear in temperature down to zero temperature at the critical point, with a co-efficient universally proportional to the product of the residual resistivity and the co-efficient of the linear in temperature specific heat. We argue that the time reparameterization soft mode offers a promising and generic mechanism for resolving the strange metal puzzle. (C) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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