| Title: |
Holographic Strange Metals for Philosophers and Physicists |
| Authors: |
Cinti, Enrico; De Haro, Sebastian; Golden, Mark S.; Gürsoy, Umut; Stoof, Henk T.C.; Sub String Theory Cosmology and ElemPart; Sub Cond-Matter Theory, Stat & Comp Phys; Theoretical Physics |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Subject Terms: |
Condensed-matter physics; Emergence; Explanation; Holography; Scientific realism; Strange metals; Philosophy; General Physics and Astronomy; History and Philosophy of Science |
| Description: |
This paper introduces the physics and philosophy of strange metals, which are characterized by unusual electrical and thermal properties that deviate from conventional metallic behaviour. The anomalous strange-metal behaviour discussed here appears in the normal state of a copper-oxide high-temperature superconductor, and it cannot be described using standard condensed-matter physics. Currently, it can only be described through a holographic dual, viz. a four-dimensional black hole in anti-de Sitter spacetime. This paper first introduces the theory of, and specific experiments carried out on, strange metals. Then it discusses a number of philosophical questions that strange metals open up regarding the experimental evidence for holography and its realist interpretation. Strange metals invert the explanatory arrows, in that usual holographic arguments are seen as giving explanations of the bulk quantum-gravity theory from the boundary. By contrast, the aim here is, by using holography, to explain the experimentally discovered and anomalous properties of strange metals. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| ISSN: |
0015-9018 |
| Relation: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/480214 |
| Availability: |
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/480214 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.14CB0695 |
| Database: |
BASE |