Bekenstein-Hawking Entropy and Strange Metals

oleh: Subir Sachdev

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: American Physical Society 2015-11-01

Deskripsi

We examine models of fermions with infinite-range interactions that realize non-Fermi liquids with a continuously variable U(1) charge density Q and a nonzero entropy density S at vanishing temperature. Real-time correlators of operators carrying U(1) charge q at a low temperature T are characterized by a Q-dependent frequency ω_{S}=(qT/ℏ)(∂S/∂Q), which determines a spectral asymmetry. We show that the correlators match precisely with those of the two-dimensional anti–de Sitter (AdS_{2}) horizons of extremal charged black holes. On the black hole side, the matching employs S as the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy density and the laws of black hole thermodynamics that relate (∂S/∂Q)/(2π) to the electric field strength in AdS_{2}. The fermion model entropy is computed using the microscopic degrees of freedom of a UV complete theory without supersymmetry.