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arxiv: 1711.03100 · v1 · pith:QQJJL44Anew · submitted 2017-11-08 · ✦ hep-th · cond-mat.str-el

Holographic Phonons

Lasma Alberte , Martin Ammon , Matteo Baggioli , Amadeo Jim\'enez-Alba , Oriol Pujol\`as This is my paper
classification ✦ hep-th cond-mat.str-el
keywords breakingdependencegravityholographicmassivemodelmodulusshear
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We present a class of holographic massive gravity models that realize a spontaneous breaking of translational symmetry - they exhibit transverse phonon modes whose speed relates to the elastic shear modulus according to elasticity theory. Massive gravity theories thus emerge as versatile and convenient theories to model generic types of translational symmetry breaking: explicit, spontaneous and a mixture of both. The nature of the breaking is encoded in the radial dependence of the graviton mass. As an application of the model, we compute the temperature dependence of the shear modulus and find that it features a glass-like melting transition.

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