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Physics Colloquium - CANCELED

Thursday, May 12, 2022
4:00pm to 5:00pm
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Towards a theory of strange quantum metals
Senthil Todadri, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,

Electrons in a conventional metal are described by Landau's celebrated theory of Fermi liquids. In the last few decades a growing number of metals have been discovered that defy a description in terms of Fermi liquid theory. Prominently, such stranmηls appearasparentphasesoutofwhichphenomena suchashightemperaturerconductivitydevelop.Howevertheir theoreticalunderstandghasmostlyremaedmysterious.  Inthistalk,Iwilldiscuss,greatrality,someertiesofstrange  metals' in an ideal clean system.  I will discuss general constraints on the emergent low energy symmetries  of any such strange metal.  

I will show how these model-independent considerations lead to concrete experimental predictions about a class of strange metals. Time permitting, I will discuss the utility of a focus on the emergent symmetries to reliably extract some physical properties of certain models of strange metals. .

All attendees must show valid Caltech ID upon entry.

Join via Zoom: https://caltech.zoom.us/j/89237465190. Meeting ID: 892 3746 5190