2018/05/31 by Mitsutoshi Fujita, René Meyer, Rene Meyer +2 · 5 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Condensed matter physics #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Hubbard model #Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories #Physics #Quantum mechanics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep01(2019)045
published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2019(1) (Springer Nature) · 53 pages, 11 figures, matches published version
openalex publication_date 2019/01/01 · arxiv created 2019/04/11 · arxiv updated 2019/04/12 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A bstract In this paper, we analyze a proposed gravity dual to a SU( N ) Bose-Hubbard model, as well as construct a holographic dual of a SU( N ) Fermi-Hubbard model from D-branes in string theory. In both cases, the SU( N ) is dynamical, i.e. the hopping degrees of freedom are strongly coupled to SU( N ) gauge bosons which themselves are strongly interacting. The vacuum expectation value (VEV) of the hopping term (i.e. the hopping energy) is analyzed in the gravity dual as a function of the bulk mass of the field dual to the hopping term, as well as of the coupling constants of the model. The bulk mass controls the anomalous dimension (i.e. the critical exponent) of the hopping term in the SU( N ) Bose-Hubbard model. We compare the hopping energy to the corresponding result in a numerical simulation of the ungauged SU( N ) Bose-Hubbard model. We find agreement when the hopping parameter is smaller than the other couplings. Our analysis shows that the kinetic energy increases as the bulk mass increases, due to increased contributions from the IR. The holographic Bose-Hubbard model is then compared with the string theory construction of a SU( N ) Fermi-Hubbard model. The string theory construction makes it possible to describe fluctuations around a half-filled state in the supergravity limit, which map to O(1) <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:mi>O</mml:mi> <mml:mfenced> <mml:mn>1</mml:mn> </mml:mfenced> </mml:math> occupation number fluctuations in the Fermi-Hubbard model at half filling. Finally, the VEV of the Bose-Hubbard model is shown to agree with the one of the fermionic Hubbard model with the help of a two-site version of the Jordan-Wigner transformation.