2012-2010

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Review and pedagogical articles are marked with a §§§.

  1. Keldysh approach for non-equilibrium phase transitions in quantum optics: beyond the Dicke model in optical cavities, E. G. Dalla Torre, S. Diehl, M. D. Lukin, S. Sachdev, and P. Strack, Physical Review A 87, 023831 (2013); arXiv:1210.3623 (Subject bec); DOI.
  2. Scaling of the thermal spectral function for quantum critical bosons in one dimension, T. Barthel, U. Schollwöck, and S. Sachdev, arXiv:1212.3570 (Subject qccross); DOI.
  3. Mobile impurity near the superfluid-Mott insulator quantum critical point in two dimensions, M. Punk and S. Sachdev, Physical Review A 87, 033618 (2013); arXiv:1212.1161 (Subject bec); DOI.
  4. Multipoint correlators of conformal field theories: implications for quantum critical transport, D. Chowdhury, S. Raju, S. Sachdev, A. Singh, and P. Strack, Physical Review B 87, 085138 (2013); arXiv:1210.5247 (Subject ads); DOI.
  5. The quasi-normal modes of quantum criticality, W. Witczak-Krempa and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 86, 235115 (2012); arXiv:1210.4166 (Subject ads); DOI.
  6. Quantum criticality of reconstructing Fermi surfaces, Junhyun Lee, P. Strack and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 87, 045104 (2013); arXiv:1209.4644 (Subject nfl); DOI.
  7. Compressible quantum phases from conformal field theories in 2+1 dimensions, S. Sachdev, Physical Review D 86, 126003 (2012) arXiv:1209.1637 (Subject ads); DOI.
  8. Breakdown of Fermi liquid behavior at the (π,π)=2kF spin-density wave quantum-critical point: the case of electron-doped cuprates, D. Bergeron, D. Chowdhury, M. Punk, S. Sachdev and A.-M.S. Tremblay, Physical Review B 86, 155123 (2012) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1207.1106 (Subject nfl); DOI.
  9. Strange Metals in One Spatial Dimension, R. Gopakumar, A. Hashimoto, I. R. Klebanov, S. Sachdev, and K. Schoutens, Physical Review D 86, 066003 (2012); arXiv:1206.4719 (Subject ads); DOI.
  10. Sign-problem-free quantum Monte Carlo of the onset of antiferromagnetism in metals, E. Berg, M. A. Metlitski and S. Sachdev, Science 338, 1606 (2012); arXiv:1206.0742 (Subject nfl); DOI.
  11. Quantum charge glasses of itinerant fermions with cavity-mediated long-range interactions, M. Müller, P. Strack and S. Sachdev, Physical Review A 86, 023604 (2012); arXiv:1205.4027 (Subject bec); DOI.
  12. §§§ Entangling superconductivity and antiferromagnetism, S. Sachdev, Science 336, 1510 (2012).(Subject nfl); DOI.
  13. Spectral functions of the Higgs mode near two-dimensional quantum critical points, D. Podolsky and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 86, 054508 (2012); arXiv:1205.2700 (Subject bec); DOI.
  14. Frustrated quantum Ising spins simulated by spinless bosons in a tilted lattice: from a quantum liquid to antiferromagnetic order, S. Pielawa, E. Berg, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 86, 184435 (2012); arXiv:1203.6653 (Subject bec); DOI.
  15. §§§ The quantum phases of matter, S. Sachdev, Lecture at 100th Anniversary Solvay Conference on Physics, "The Theory of the Quantum World", Brussels, Oct 19-22, 2011, arXiv:1203.4565 (Subjects ads, nfl); DOI.
  16. §§§ Antiferromagnetism in metals: from the cuprate superconductors to the heavy fermion materials, S. Sachdev, M. A. Metlitski, and M. Punk, Proceedings of SCES 2011, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, 294205 (2012); arXiv:1202.4760. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  17. Fermi surface reconstruction in hole-doped t-J models without long-range antiferromagnetic order, M. Punk and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 85, 195123 (2012); arXiv:1202.4023. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  18. Entanglement Entropy of 3-d Conformal Gauge Theories with Many Flavors, I. R. Klebanov, S. S. Pufu, S. Sachdev, and B. R. Safdi, Journal of High Energy Physics 1205 (2012) 036; arXiv:1112.5342 (Subject ads); DOI.
  19. Competition between superconductivity and nematic order : anisotropy of superconducting coherence length, E. G. Moon and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 85, 184511 (2012); arXiv:1112.3973. (Subject superflow); DOI.
  20. Hidden Fermi surfaces in compressible states of gauge-gravity duality, L. Huijse, S. Sachdev, and B. Swingle, Physical Review B 85, 035121 (2012) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1112.0573. (Subject ads); DOI.
  21. Renyi entropies for free field theories, I. R. Klebanov, S. S. Pufu, S. Sachdev, and B. R. Safdi, Journal of High Energy Physics 1204 (2012) 074; arXiv:1111.6290 (Subject ads); DOI.
  22. §§§ Strange and Stringy, S. Sachdev, Scientific American 308, 44 (January 2013). (Subject ads); DOI.
  23. Nematicity in the vortex lattice of FeSe, D. Chowdhury, E. Berg, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 84, 205113 (2011); arXiv:1109.2600 (Subject superflow); DOI.
  24. Dicke quantum spin glass of atoms and photons, P. Strack and S. Sachdev, Physical Review Letters 107, 277202 (2011); arXiv:1109.2119 (Subject bec); DOI.
  25. §§§ What can gauge-gravity duality teach us about condensed matter physics?, S. Sachdev, Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics 3, 9 (2012); arXiv:1108.1197 (Subject ads); DOI.
  26. Topological Defects Coupling Smectic Modulations to Intra-unit-cell Nematicity in Cuprates, A. Mesaros, K. Fujita, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Davis, S. Sachdev, J. Zaanen, M. J. Lawler, and Eun-Ah Kim, Science 333, 426 (2011); arXiv:1108.0487 (Subject superflow); DOI.
  27. A model of a Fermi liquid using gauge-gravity duality, S. Sachdev, Physical Review D 84, 066009 (2011); arXiv:1107.5321 (Subject ads); DOI.
  28. Vison states and confinement transitions of Z2 spin liquids on the kagome lattice, Y. Huh, M. Punk and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 84, 094419 (2011); arXiv:1106.3330. (Subject deconfine); DOI.
  29. Quantum critical response at the onset of spin density wave order in two-dimensional metals, S. A. Hartnoll, D. M. Hofman, M. A. Metlitski and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 84, 125115 (2011) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1106.0001. (Subject nfl); DOI.
  30. Fermi surfaces and gauge-gravity duality L. Huijse and S. Sachdev, Physical Review D 84, 026001 (2011); arXiv:1104.5022. (Subject ads); DOI.
  31. SU(2)-invariant spin liquids on the triangular lattice with spinful Majorana excitations, R. R. Biswas, L. Fu, C. Laumann, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 83, 245131 (2011) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1102.3690 (Subject dcp); DOI.
  32. Correlated phases of bosons in tilted, frustrated lattices, S. Pielawa, T. Kitagawa, E. Berg, and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 83, 205135 (2011); arXiv:1101.2897 (Subject bec); DOI.
  33. §§§ The landscape of the Hubbard model, S. Sachdev, TASI (Boulder, June 2010) and Chandrasekhar (Bangalore, December 2010) lectures in String Theory and Its Applications, TASI 2010, From meV to the Planck Scale, edited by Michael Dine, Thomas Banks, and Subir Sachdev, World Scientific, Singapore (2011); arXiv:1012.0299. (Subject ads); DOI.
  34. The underdoped cuprates as fractionalized Fermi liquids: transition to superconductivity, E. G. Moon and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 83, 224508 (2011); arXiv:1010.4567 (Subjects acl, nfl); DOI.
  35. Geometric phases and competing orders in two dimensions, L. Fu, S. Sachdev, and C. Xu, Physical Review B 83, 165123 (2011); arXiv:1010.3745. (Subject dcp); DOI.
  36. §§§ Strange metals and the AdS/CFT correspondence, S. Sachdev, Journal of Statistical Mechanics (2010) P11022, Plenary talk at Statphys 24, Cairns, Australia, July 2010; arXiv:1010.0682. (Subject ads); DOI.
  37. Holographic quantum critical transport without self-duality R. C. Myers, S. Sachdev, and A. Singh, Physical Review D 83, 066017 (2011); arXiv:1010.0443. (Subject ads); DOI.
  38. §§§ Quantum Criticality, S. Sachdev and B. Keimer, Physics Today 64, no. 2, 29 (2011); arXiv:1102.4628; DOI.
  39. §§§ Dilute Fermi and Bose Gases, S. Sachdev, adapted from Chapter 16 of Quantum Phase Transitions, Second Edition, by S. Sachdev, Cambridge University Press; contribution to Lecture Notes in Physics, "BCS-BEC crossover and the Unitary Fermi Gas" edited by W. Zwerger; arXiv:1105.1793 (Subject bec); DOI.
  40. §§§ Instabilities near the onset of spin density wave order in metals, M. A. Metlitski and S. Sachdev, contribution to the special issue on "Fermiology of Cuprates", edited by Mike Norman and Cyril Proust, New Journal of Physics 12, 105007 (2010); arXiv:1007.1968; DOI. (Subject nfl)
  41. Holographic metals and the fractionalized Fermi liquid, S. Sachdev, Physical Review Letters 105, 151602 (2010) - Editors' Suggestion and Featured in Physics; arXiv:1006.3794. See Physics Viewpoint and Nature News (Subject ads); DOI.
  42. Quantum critical point shifts under superconductivity: the pnictides and the cuprates, E. G. Moon and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 82, 104516 (2010); arXiv:1005.3312. (Subject superflow); DOI.
  43. Quantum phase transitions of metals in two spatial dimensions: II. Spin density wave order, M. A. Metlitski and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 82, 075128 (2010) - Editors' Suggestion and Featured in Physics; arXiv:1005.1288. (Subject nfl)
    See Physics Viewpoint article.; DOI.
  44. Majorana liquids: the complete fractionalization of the electron, C. Xu and S. Sachdev, Physical Review Letters 105, 057201 (2010) - Editors' Suggestion; arXiv:1004.5431. (Subject dcp)
    See PhysOrg.com; DOI.
  45. Quantum criticality of the kagome antiferromagnet with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interactions, Y. Huh, L. Fritz and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 81, 144432 (2010); arXiv:1003.0891; DOI.
  46. §§§ Condensed matter and AdS/CFT, Lectures at the 5th Aegean summer school, From gravity to thermal gauge theories: the AdS/CFT correspondence, September 21-26, 2009; and the De Sitter Lecture Series in Theoretical Physics 2009, University of Groningen, November 16-20, 2009; published in From Gravity to Thermal Gauge Theories: The AdS/CFT Correspondence, Springer Nature (2011); arXiv:1002.2947; DOI.
  47. §§§ Quantum phase transitions of antiferromagnets and the cuprate superconductors, Lectures at the Les Houches School May 11-29, 2009; published in Modern Theories of Many-Particle Systems in Condensed Matter Physics, D. C. Cabra, A. Honecker, and P. Pujol eds, Lecture Notes in Physics v. 843, Springer, Berlin (2012); and Lectures at the Mahabaleshwar Condensed Matter School, International Center for Theoretical Sciences, India, December 16-23, 2009; arXiv:1002.3823; DOI.
  48. Quantum phase transitions of metals in two spatial dimensions: I. Ising-nematic order, M. A. Metlitski and S. Sachdev, Physical Review B 82, 075127 (2010) - Editors' Suggestion and Featured in Physics; arXiv:1001.1153. (Subject nfl); See Physics Viewpoint article.; DOI.