Lecturer: Prof. Subir Sachdev, Harvard University
Abstract:
Many modern materials feature a “strange metal”: a phase of electronic quantum matter without particle-like excitations. I will describe recent progress in the theory of strange metals by drawing upon insights from the solvable Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model.
This model features all-to-all entanglement of electrons, and chaos and thermalization in the shortest possible time, which is of order (Planck’s constant)/(absolute temperature). Insights from the SYK model have also led to many exciting advances in the quantum theory of black holes, which also thermalize in a time of order (Planck’s constant)/(black hole Hawking temperature).
I will describe an example: the universal, leading, low temperature correction to the
Bekenstein-Hawking entropy of charged black holes in Einstein’s theory of general
relativity.