Thermodynamics and transport of holographic nodal line semimetals

Ronnie Rodgers (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, CC, 3584, The Netherlands) ; Enea Mauri (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, CC, 3584, The Netherlands) ; Umut Gürsoy (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, CC, 3584, The Netherlands) ; Henk Stoof (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 5, Utrecht, CC, 3584, The Netherlands)

We study various thermodynamic and transport properties of a holographic model of a nodal line semimetal (NLSM) at finite temperature, including the quantum phase transition to a topologically trivial phase, with Dirac semimetal-like conductivity. At zero temperature, composite fermion spectral functions obtained from holography are known to exhibit multiple Fermi surfaces. Similarly, for the holographic NLSM we observe multiple nodal lines instead of just one. We show, however, that as the temperature is raised these nodal lines broaden and disappear into the continuum one by one, so there is a finite range of temperatures for which there is only a single nodal line visible in the spectrum. We compute several transport coefficients in the holographic NLSM as a function of temperature, namely the charge and thermal conductivities, and the shear viscosities. By adding a new non-linear coupling to the model we are able to control the low frequency limit of the electrical conductivity in the direction orthogonal to the plane of the nodal line, allowing us to better match the conductivity of real NLSMs. The boundary quantum field theory is anisotropic and therefore has explicitly broken Lorentz invariance, which leads to a stress tensor that is not symmetric. This has important consequences for the energy and momentum transport: the thermal conductivity at vanishing charge density is not simply fixed by a Ward identity, and there are a much larger number of independent shear viscosities than in a Lorentz-invariant system.

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Published on:
25 November 2021
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Springer
Published in:
Journal of High Energy Physics , Volume 2021 (2021)
Issue 11
Pages 1-62
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2021)191
arXiv:
2109.07187
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