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Planckian Dissipation in Metals

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abstract

We review the appearance of the Planckian time $\tau_\text{Pl} = \hbar/(k_B T)$ in both conventional and unconventional metals. We give a pedagogical discussion of the various different timescales (quasiparticle, transport, many-body) that characterize metals, emphasizing conditions under which these times are the same or different. Throughout, we have attempted to clear up aspects of the problem that had been confusing us, in the hope that this helps the reader as well. We discuss the possibility of a Planckian bound on dissipation from both a quasiparticle and a many-body perspective. Planckian quasiparticles can arise naturally from a combination of inelastic scattering and mass renormalization. Many-body dynamics, on the other hand, is constrained by the basic time- and length- scales of local thermalization.

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Hot band sound

cond-mat.stat-mech · 2022-08-29 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Tuned long-range density-density interactions enable underdamped hot band sound in chaotic 1D spinless fermion models at infinite temperature.

Effective Field Theories for Material Media

hep-th · 2026-07-07 · accept · novelty 4.0

Spacetime-symmetry-breaking Goldstone EFTs systematically describe bulk and localized excitations of solids, fluids, and superfluids, with new thermodynamic identifications and corrected scattering rates.

Fractionalized Fermi liquids and the cuprate phase diagram

cond-mat.str-el · 2025-08-27 · unverdicted · novelty 3.0

Reviews the FL* theory for cuprates using ancilla layer models and SU(2) gauge theories to explain pseudogap hole pockets of area p/8, Fermi arcs, and transitions to d-wave superconductivity and Fermi liquid behavior.

Boulder Lectures on Thermal Dynamics and Hydrodynamic EFTs

hep-th · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · novelty 2.0

Lectures summarizing the construction of hydrodynamic EFTs through strong-to-weak symmetry breaking, with examples from spin chains to relativistic QFTs and UV/IR constraints on transport coefficients.

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  • Schwinger-Keldysh effective theory of charge transport: redundancies and systematic $\omega/T$ expansion hep-th · 2025-08-25 · unverdicted · none · ref 9

    Proves equivalence of redundant Goldstone and adjoint-matter formulations of SK EFTs for non-Abelian symmetries and extends both to all orders in ħω/T while classifying invariant kernels under DKMS and unitarity.

  • Bootstrapping transport in the Drude-Kadanoff-Martin model hep-th · 2025-09-22 · accept · none · ref 16

    Derives lower bound on collective mean free path ℓ = √(τ D) in Drude-Kadanoff-Martin model from Green's function bounds, implying Mott-Ioffe-Regel limit for lattice models.

  • Hot band sound cond-mat.stat-mech · 2022-08-29 · unverdicted · none · ref 4

    Tuned long-range density-density interactions enable underdamped hot band sound in chaotic 1D spinless fermion models at infinite temperature.

  • Effective Field Theories for Material Media hep-th · 2026-07-07 · accept · none · ref 112 · internal anchor

    Spacetime-symmetry-breaking Goldstone EFTs systematically describe bulk and localized excitations of solids, fluids, and superfluids, with new thermodynamic identifications and corrected scattering rates.

  • Fractionalized Fermi liquids and the cuprate phase diagram cond-mat.str-el · 2025-08-27 · unverdicted · none · ref 222

    Reviews the FL* theory for cuprates using ancilla layer models and SU(2) gauge theories to explain pseudogap hole pockets of area p/8, Fermi arcs, and transitions to d-wave superconductivity and Fermi liquid behavior.

  • Boulder Lectures on Thermal Dynamics and Hydrodynamic EFTs hep-th · 2026-06-01 · unverdicted · none · ref 128

    Lectures summarizing the construction of hydrodynamic EFTs through strong-to-weak symmetry breaking, with examples from spin chains to relativistic QFTs and UV/IR constraints on transport coefficients.