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Holographic duality

Stealing dimensions from metals

Although electrically charged black holes seem remote from superconductors and strange metals in the laboratory, they might be intimately related by the holographic dualities discovered in string theory.

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Zaanen, J. Stealing dimensions from metals. Nature Phys 9, 609–610 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys2717

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