Theoretical Physics Colloquium
Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
by Prof. Senthil Todadri (MIT)
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Zoom : https://zoom.us/j/94195941535?pwd=RWRZU09sQWxRWEVneXNzMVp2NFVxdz09 Meeting ID: 941 9594 1535 Passcode: 958967
at Zoom : https://zoom.us/j/94195941535?pwd=RWRZU09sQWxRWEVneXNzMVp2NFVxdz09 Meeting ID: 941 9594 1535 Passcode: 958967
Description |
Electrons in a conventional metal are described by Landau's celebrated theory of Fermi liquids. In the last few decades a growing number of metals have been discovered that defy a description in terms of Fermi liquid theory. Prominently, such `strange metals' appear as parent phases out of which phenomena such as high temperature superconductivity develop. However their theoretical understanding has mostly remained mysterious. In this talk, I will discuss, in great generality, some properties of `strange metals' in an ideal clean system. I will discuss general constraints on the emergent low energy symmetries of any such strange metal. I will show how these model-independent considerations lead to concrete experimental predictions about a class of strange metals. Time permitting, I will discuss the utility of a focus on the emergent symmetries to reliably extract some physical properties of certain models of strange metals. |