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Holographic Polarons, the Metal-Insulator Transition and Massive Gravity

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arxiv 1411.1003 v3 pith:AWYY6CMX submitted 2014-11-04 hep-th cond-mat.str-el

Holographic Polarons, the Metal-Insulator Transition and Massive Gravity

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Massive gravity is holographically dual to `realistic' materials with momentum relaxation. The dual graviton potential encodes the phonon dynamics and it allows for a much broader diversity than considered so far. We construct a simple family of isotropic and homogeneous materials that exhibit an interaction-driven Metal-Insulator transition. The transition is triggered by the formation of polarons -- phonon-electron quasi-bound states that dominate the conductivities, shifting the spectral weight above a mass gap. We characterize the polaron gap, width and dispersion.

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