Reviews

See also, lectures on my YouTube channel.

  • Critical quantum liquids and the cuprate high temperature superconductors, P. M. Bonetti, M. Christos, A. Nikolaenko, A. A. Patel, and S. Sachdev, arXiv:2508.20164; DOI.
  • The foot, the fan, and the cuprate phase diagram: Fermi-volume-changing quantum phase transitions, S. Sachdev, Physica C 633, 1354707 (2025); arXiv:2501.16417; DOI (Corrigendum Physica C 633, 1354732 (2025); DOI).
  • Quantum spin liquids and the phases of the cuprates, S. Sachdev, Coshare Science 02, 03 (2024) [Video review talk]; DOI.
  • 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.
  • Quantum spin liquids and the phases of the cuprates, S. Sachdev, Coshare Science 02, 03 (2024) [Video review talk]; DOI.
  • Strange Metals and Black Holes: Insights From the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Model, S. Sachdev, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in Physics, December 2023; arXiv:2305.01001; DOI.
  • Quantum statistical mechanics of the Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model and charged black holes, S. Sachdev, chapter in 50 years of the renormalization group, dedicated to the memory of Michael E. Fisher, edited by Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-Wohlman, David Huse, and Leo Radzihovsky, World Scientific (2024), DOI; International Journal of Modern Physics B 38, 2430003 (2024); arXiv:2304.13744; DOI.
  • Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev Models and Beyond: A Window into Non-Fermi Liquids, D. Chowdhury, A. Georges, O. Parcollet, and S. Sachdev, Reviews of Modern Physics 94, 035004 (2022); arXiv:2109.05037; DOI.
  • Quantum Connections, S. Hartnoll, S. Sachdev, T. Takayanagi, Xie Chen, E. Silverstein, and J. Sonner, Nature Reviews Physics 3, 391 (2021); DOI.
  • Topological order, emergent gauge fields, and Fermi surface reconstruction, S. Sachdev, partly based on lectures at the 34th Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics: New Horizons in Quantum Matter, December 27, 2016 - January 5, 2017, Reports on Progress in Physics 82, 014001 (2019); arXiv:1801.01125; DOI.
  • The novel metallic states of the cuprates: Fermi liquids with topological order and strange metals, S. Sachdev and D. Chowdhury, Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics 12C102 (2016); arXiv:1605.03579. (Subjects nfl, deconfine, dcp); DOI.
  • Emergent gauge fields and the high temperature superconductors, S. Sachdev, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 374, 20150248 (2016); arXiv:1512.00465; DOI.
  • The enigma of the pseudogap phase of the cuprate superconductors, D. Chowdhury and S. Sachdev, in Quantum Criticality in Condensed Matter: Phenomena, Materials and Ideas in Theory and Experiment: 50th Karpacz Winter School of Theoretical Physics, J. Jedrzejewski Editor, World Scientific (2015), arXiv:1501.00002; DOI.
  • Strange and Stringy, S. Sachdev, Scientific American 308, 44 (January 2013); DOI.
  • 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; DOI.
  • Quantum Criticality, S. Sachdev and B. Keimer, Physics Today 64, no. 2, 29 (2011); arXiv:1102.4628; DOI.
  • 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; DOI.
  • Quantum criticality and the phase diagram of the cuprates, S. Sachdev, Physica C 470, S4 (2010); Keynote talk, 9th International Conference on Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity, Tokyo, Sep 7-12, 2009, arXiv:0910.0846; DOI.
  • Finite temperature dissipation and transport near quantum critical points , S. Sachdev, contributed chapter to the book Understanding Quantum Phase Transitions, edited by Lincoln D. Carr (Taylor & Francis, Boca Raton, 2010) arXiv:0910.1139; DOI.
  • Exotic phases and quantum phase transitions: model systems and experiments, S. Sachdev, Rapporteur talk, Quantum Theory of Condensed Matter: Proceedings of the 24th Solvay Conference on Physics, Bertrand Halperin editor, World Scientific (2010), arXiv:0901.4103; DOI.
  • 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; DOI.
  • 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.
  • Quantum magnetism and criticality, S. Sachdev, Nature Physics 4, 173 (2008); arXiv:0711.3015; DOI.
  • Order and quantum phase transitions in the cuprate superconductors, S. Sachdev, Reviews of Modern Physics 75, 913 (2003); cond-mat/0211005; DOI.
  • Quantum phases and phase transitions of Mott insulators , S. Sachdev in Quantum magnetism, U. Schollwock, J. Richter, D. J. J. Farnell and R. A. Bishop eds, Lecture Notes in Physics 645, Springer, Berlin (2004), cond-mat/0401041; DOI.
  • Quantum Phase Transitions
    • Book published by Cambridge University Press (1999).
    • popular science article in iThe New Physics, edited by Gordon Fraser, Cambridge University Press; Weblink DOI.
    • contribution to the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, eds. J.-P. Françoise, G.L. Naber and Tsou S.T., 4, 289 (2006), Oxford: Elsevier; Weblink; DOI.
    • contribution to the Handbook of Magnetism and Advanced Magnetic Materials, edited by H. Kronmuller and S. Parkin, Wiley, 2005; Weblink; DOI.
  • Quantum criticality: competing ground states in low dimensions, S. Sachdev, Science 288, 475 (2000); cond-mat/0009456; DOI.