Highlights of Holography with massive gravitons

by Daniele Musso (ICTP)

Thursday 30 Oct 2014, 15:00 → 16:00 Europe/Rome

248 (Building C, first floor)

On the stage of strongly coupled systems in condensed matter, holography is nowadays playing a very interesting part. Indeed it furnishes a well-defined framework were strongly coupled toy-models amenable to explicit quantitative computations are available. Universal behaviors, such as linear in T resistivity of strange metals or Plankian diffusivity bounds at criticality, can be directly addressed and even provide useful suggestions to direct experimental investigations. I'll discuss some exciting insight gained from holographic models featuring momentum dissipation induced by an explicit mass term for the gravitons in the dual gravity model