Holographic Duality with a View Toward Many-Body Physics

These are notes based on a series of lectures given at the KITP workshop Quantum Criticality and the AdS/CFT Correspondence in July, 2009. The goal of the lectures was to introduce condensed matter physicists to the AdS/CFT correspondence. Discussion of string theory and of supersymmetry is avoided...

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Main Author: John McGreevy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2010-01-01
Series:Advances in High Energy Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/723105