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We obtain holographic realizations for systems that have strong similarities to Mott insulators and supersolids, after examining the ground states of Einstein-Maxwell-scalar systems. The real part of the AC conductivity has a hard gap and a discrete spectrum only. We add momentum dissipation to resolve the δ-function in the conductivity due to translational invariance. We develop tools to directly calculate the Drude weight for a large class of solutions and to support our claims. Numerical RG flows are also constructed to verify that such saddle points are IR fixed points of asymptotically AdS4 geometries.
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Kiritsis, E., Ren, J. On holographic insulators and supersolids. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 168 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)168
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