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Striped instability of a holographic Fermi-like liquid

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We consider a holographic description of a system of strongly-coupled fermions in 2 + 1 dimensions based on a D7-brane probe in the background of D3-branes. The black hole embedding represents a Fermi-like liquid. We study the excitations of the Fermi liquid system. Above a critical density which depends on the temperature, the system becomes unstable towards an inhomogeneous modulated phase which is similar to a charge density and spin wave state. The essence of this instability can be effectively described by a Maxwell-axion theory with a background electric field. We also consider the fate of zero sound at non-zero temperature.

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  1. Department of Physics, Technion, Haifa, 32000, Israel

    Oren Bergman & Niko Jokela

  2. Department of Mathematics and Physics, University of Haifa at Oranim, Tivon, 36006, Israel

    Niko Jokela & Gilad Lifschytz

  3. Crete Center for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Crete, 71003, Heraklion, Greece

    Matthew Lippert

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Bergman, O., Jokela, N., Lifschytz, G. et al. Striped instability of a holographic Fermi-like liquid. J. High Energ. Phys. 2011, 34 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP10(2011)034

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