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[en] DE024486693In the present thesis by means of the AdS/CFT correspondence phenomena of strongly coupled quantum critical systems are studied. Hereby the assumption developed 1997 by Maldacena puts four-dimensional N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory and type IIB supergravity in the five-dimensional anti-de Sitter space in relation. This assumption can be generalized in different ways. So on the gauge-theory side states with finite temperature and density can be considered or degrees of freedom added, which transform in the fundamental representation of the gauge group, the so-called flavor degrees of freedom. These deformations of the correspondence are applied in the present thesis in order to understand better strongly coupled systems in the neighbourhood of quantum-critical points. We approximate hereby the field theory at the quantum-critical point by N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. The charge carriers of the system are introduced by supersymmetric flavor fields. For instance in the present thesis in the case of two flavor fields, which have the same mass, a chemical potential for the isospin is considered and the phase diagram studied. The isospin-chemical potential breaks hereby the non-Abelian part of the flavor symmetry SU(2) to U(1). If a critical value of the isospin-chemical potential is exceeded, so shows our calculation, that the strongly coupled system becomes unstable against fluctuations. A new thermodynamically favorized state is formed. This state breaks the residual U(1) flavor symmetry spontaneously and can therefore be considered as a superfluid. If U(1) is gauged, by this way a superconductor is obtained. The AC conductivity goes in the superconducting phase for small frequencies to zero. The DC conductivity however is infinite. Furthermore we calculate the Fermi surface in the superconducting phase. Furthermore a holographic method for the calculation of the DC conductivity in arbitrarily constant electric and magnetic fields is further developed. Finally a second model for the field theory at the quantum-critical point, a Chern-Simons matter theory in (2+1) dimensions is studied more precisely. On the gravitational side thereby higher-dimensional membranes and other non-perturbative objects, so-called KK-monopoles are embedded in M-theory respectively its type IIA limit.
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7 Jul 2010; 249 p; Diss.
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ANTI DE SITTER SPACE, BRANES, CONFORMAL INVARIANCE, DUALITY, ELECTRIC FIELDS, FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, ISOSPIN, KALUZA-KLEIN THEORY, MAGNETIC FIELDS, MANY-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, MONOPOLES, SU-2 GROUPS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY, SUPERFLUIDITY, SUPERGRAVITY, SUPERSYMMETRY, THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES, THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS, U-1 GROUPS, YANG-MILLS THEORY
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