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Emergent scale invariance of disordered horizons

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Hartnoll, SA 
Ramirez, DM 
Santos, JE 

Abstract

We construct planar black hole solutions in AdS < inf > 3 < /inf > and AdS < inf > 4 < /inf > in which the boundary CFT is perturbed by marginally relevant quenched disorder. We show that the entropy density of the horizon has the scaling temperature dependence s ∼ T < sup > (d−1)/z < /sup > (with d = 2, 3). The dynamical critical exponent z is computed numerically and, at weak disorder, analytically. These results lend support to the claim that the perturbed CFT flows to a disordered quantum critical theory in the IR.

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Keywords

holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT), black holes, random systems

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2015

Publisher

Springer
Sponsorship
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/H008586/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J000434/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/J005673/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/K00333X/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/L000385/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M00418X/1)
Science and Technology Facilities Council (ST/M007065/1)