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Thermoelectric power of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev islands: Probing Bekenstein-Hawking entropy in quantum matter experiments

Alexander Kruchkov, Aavishkar A. Patel, Philip Kim, Subir Sachdev

2020Physical review. B./Physical review. B45 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

One of the remarkable properties of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model of randomly interacting electrons is that it has a nonvanishing extensive entropy in the limit of zero temperature. In its dual representation as the low energy theory of a charged black hole, this entropy is the Bekenstein-Hawking black hole entropy. This work shows how the entropy can be measured by thermoelectric probes of mesoscopic electronic realizations of Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev models.

Topics & Concepts

PhysicsQuasiparticleMesoscopic physicsQuantum mechanicsQuantum gravityBlack hole thermodynamicsCondensed matter physicsQuantumSpinonFermionEntropy (arrow of time)Quantum electrodynamicsSuperconductivityBlack Holes and Theoretical PhysicsQuantum many-body systemsTopological Materials and Phenomena