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String theory methods for condensed matter physics
Part I: Condensed matter models and problems -- Lightning review of statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, phases, and phase transitions -- Magnetism in solids -- Electrons in solids: Fermi gas vs. Fermi liquid -- Bosonic quasi-particles: phonons and plasmons -- Spin-charge separation in 1+1-dimensional solids: spinons and holons -- The Ising model and the Heisenberg spin chain -- Spin chains and integrable systems -- The thermodynamic Bethe Ansatz -- Conformal field theories and quantum phase transitions -- Classical vs. quantum Hall effect -- Superconductivity: Landau-Ginzburg, London, and BCS -- Topology and statistics: Berry and Chern-Simons, anyons, and nonabelions -- Insulators -- The Kondo effect and the Kondo problem -- Hydrodynamics and transport properties: from Boltzmann to Navier-Stokes -- Part II: Elements of general relativity and string theory -- The Einstein equation and the Schwarzchild solution -- The Reissner-Nordstrom and Kerr-Newman solutions and thermodynamic properties of black holes -- Extra dimensions and Kalusza-Klein -- Electromagnetism and gravity in various dimensions, consistent truncations -- Gravity plus matter: black holes and p-branes in various dimensions -- Weak/strong coupling dualities in 1+1, 2+1, 3+1, and d+1 dimensions -- The relativistic point particle and the relativistic string -- Lightcone strings and quantization -- D-branes and gauge fields -- Electromagnetic fields on D-branes: supersymmetry and N=4 SYM, T-duality of closed strings -- Dualities and M theory -- The AdS/CFT correspondence : definition and motivation -- Part III: Applying string theory to condensed matter problems -- The pp wave correspondence: string Hamiltonian from N=4 SYM -- Spin chains from N = 4 SYM -- The Bethe Ansatz: Bethe strings from classical strings in AdS -- Integrability and AdS/CFT -- AdS/CFT phenomenonology: Lifshitz, Galilean, and Schrödinger symmetries and their gravity duals -- Finite temperature and black holes -- Hot plasma equilibrium thermodynamics: entropy, charge density, and chemical potential of strongly coupled theories -- Spectral functions and transport properties -- Dynamic and nonequilibrium properties of plasmas: electric transport, Langevin diffusion, and thermalization via black hole quasi-normal modes -- The holographic superconductor -- The fluid-gravity correspondence: conformal relativistic fluids from black hole horizons -- Non-relativistic fluids: from Einstein to Navier-Stokes and back -- Part IV: Advanced applications -- Fermi gas and liquid in AdS/CFT -- Quantum Hall effect from string theory -- Quantum critical systems and AdS/CFT -- Particle-vortex duality and ABJM vs. AdS₄ X CP³ duality -- Topoology and non-standard statistics from AdS/CFT -- DBI Scalar model for QGP/Black hole hydro- and thermo-dynamics -- Holographic entanglement entropy in condensed matter -- Holographic insulators -- Holographic strange metals and the Kondo problem.
Horaţiu Nǎstase, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo.
Includes bibliographical references and index.