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Black holes and universality classes of critical points
Pavel Kovtun, Adam Ritz
We argue that there exists an infinite class of conformal field theories in diverse dimensions, having a universal ratio of the central charge c to the normalized entropy density c…
Theory of the Nernst effect near quantum phase transitions in condensed matter, and in dyonic black holes
Sean A. Hartnoll, Pavel K. Kovtun, Markus Mueller +1
We present a general hydrodynamic theory of transport in the vicinity of superfluid-insulator transitions in two spatial dimensions described by "Lorentz"-invariant quantum critica…
Hall conductivity from dyonic black holes
Sean A. Hartnoll, Pavel Kovtun
A class of strongly interacting 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories in a transverse magnetic field can be studied using the AdS/CFT duality. We compute zero momentum hydrodyna…
Quantum critical transport, duality, and M-theory
Christopher P. Herzog, Pavel Kovtun, Subir Sachdev +1
We consider charge transport properties of 2+1 dimensional conformal field theories at non-zero temperature. For theories with only Abelian U(1) charges, we describe the action of…