Selected Review Articles

• Strange and Stringy, Scientific American, in press [PDF file]
• What can gauge-gravity duality teach us about condensed matter physics?, to appear in Annual Reviews of Condensed Matter Physics [PDF file; arXiv:1108.1197]
• Quantum Criticality, S. Sachdev and B. Keimer, Physics Today 64, no. 2, 29 (2011) [PDF file; arXiv:1102.4628]
• Quantum criticality and the phase diagram of the cuprates, - Keynote talk at the 9th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, Tokyo, Sep 7-12, 2009 [PDF file; arXiv:0910.0846]
• Finite temperature dissipation and transport near quantum critical points, - contributed chapter to the book "Developments in Quantum Phase Transitions", edited by Lincoln Carr [PDF file; arXiv:0910.1139]
• Exotic phases and quantum phase transitions: model systems and experiments - Rapporteur talk at the 24th Solvay Conference on Physics, "Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter", Brussels, Oct 2008 [PDF file; arXiv:0901.4103]
• Quantum criticality and black holes - plenary talk at 25th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics, Amsterdam, Aug 2008 [PDF file; arXiv:0810.3005]
• Quantum magnetism and criticality - review article based on a number of recent colloquia, Nature Physics 4, 173 (2008) [PDF file; arXiv:0711.3015]
• Order and quantum phase transitions in the cuprate superconductors, Reviews of Modern Physics 75, 913 (2003) [PDF file ; cond-mat/0211005 ]
• Quantum phases and phase transitions of Mott insulators - review article on quantum magnetism [PDF file ; cond-mat/0401041 ]
• Quantum Phase Transitions
  • Book published by Cambridge University Press (1999).
  • popular science article to appear in The New Physics, edited by Gordon Fraser, Cambridge University Press
  • contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, eds. J.-P. Françoise, G.L. Naber and Tsou S.T., 4, 289 (2006), Oxford: Elsevier.
  • contribution to the Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials, edited by H. Kronmuller and S. Parkin, Wiley, 2005.
• Quantum Criticality: competing ground states in low dimensions - survey article in Science 288, 475 (2000) [PDF file ; cond-mat/0009456 ]
• Competing Orders and non-Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Criticality in (Bose) Mott transitions , L. Balents, L. Bartosch, A. Burkov, S. Sachdev, and K. Sengupta, Proceedings of ``Physics of Strongly Correlated Electron Systems'', YKIS2004 workshop, Yukawa Institute, Kyoto, Japan, November 2004, Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement 160, 314 (2005) [PDF file ; cond-mat/0504692]