On the Lifshitz black brane geometry of an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity, we holographically investigate electric DC conductivities and the role of impurity in a nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium with two different charge carriers, impurity and Lifshitz matter. The conductivity carried by Lifshitz matter is proportional to the square of temperature, while that carried by impurity crucially depends on the bulk coupling parameter γ. For γ<−2, impurity at high temperature can change the electric property of the Lifshitz medium significantly so that the Lifshitz matter with impurity can show a totally different electric property from the pure Lifshitz matter.
1. Introduction
The AdS/CFT correspondence is a very useful and fascinating tool for understanding the strongly interacting system [1–4]. In the last decade, it has been widely used in studying some universal properties of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and condensed matter systems in the strong coupling regime [5–15]. The asymptotic AdS geometry plays an important role in such investigations because its dual theory is described by the conformal symmetry. Can we generalize the AdS/CFT correspondence to the non-AdS geometry? It is an interesting and also important question in understanding the nonconformal or nonrelativistic condensed matter systems through the holographic methods [16–30]. In this paper, we will study the electric conductivities in the nonrelativistic Lifshitz theory with two kinds of charge carriers.
Following the gauge/gravity duality it was shown that the Einstein-dilaton theory with a Liouville potential corresponds to a relativistic nonconformal theory [31, 32]. In addition, it was also found that the DC conductivity of the dual system can show different behaviors depending on what kind of vector fluctuation is turned on. If a vector fluctuation is not coupled to dilaton, the corresponding DC conductivity in a 2+1-dimensional relativistic nonconformal theory is temperature independent, while it can have a nontrivial temperature dependence for the vector fluctuation coupled to dilaton. These facts were also checked by using the membrane paradigm [33]. In the similar setup without a Liouville potential, the exact gravity solution has been known as the Lifshitz geometry [17, 18]. Although the Lifshitz geometry has different scaling in the temporal and spatial coordinates, the generalized scaling symmetry, the so-called hyperscaling symmetry, is still preserved. Due to such a nontrivial scaling, it has been believed that the Lifshitz geometry is dual to a Lifshitz field theory. In particular, when the dynamical exponent is z=2, the corresponding dual theory becomes nonrelativistic. In the holographic QCD models for a strongly interacting quark-gluon plasma [34–43], the asymptotic AdS space has been used as the dual geometry. These works were further generalized to the charged AdS geometry, for example, the thermal charged AdS and Reissner-Nordström black brane geometry [36–39]. In these cases, a bulk vector field was identified with matter of the dual theory. Similarly, the bulk vector field of the Lifshitz geometry might be regarded as matter of the Lifshitz field theory. Here, we will simply call it Lifshitz matter or Lifshitz medium. The string theory construction of the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium was studied in [44] and the binding energy and drag force of external quarks were investigated in [45].
There were many studies on the DC conductivity and superconductivity of the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium without a dilaton coupling [46–54]. We further investigate the DC conductivities of the Lifshitz medium with a nontrivial dilaton coupling, which provides more information for the charge carrier. In this paper, a new vector fluctuation is turned on in the Lifshitz black brane geometry to describe impurity in the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium. This new vector fluctuation can have a different dilaton coupling from the background gauge field. If we parameterize the different dilaton coupling with γ, there exists a discrepancy between the results of the membrane paradigm and the Kubo formula for γ≥1. This is due to the change of the asymptotic boundary condition. While the membrane paradigm does not care about the change of the asymptotic boundary condition [55, 56], the Kubo formula crucially depends on it [57–59]. On the other hand, the fluctuation of the background gauge field corresponds to the Lifshitz matter. The DC conductivity carried by it shows totally different behavior from that of impurity because it is coupled to the metric fluctuation through the background gauge field even at quadratic order. The Kubo formula says that the DC conductivity carried by the Lifshitz matter is proportional to the square of temperature. In certain condensed matter systems like semiconductor, impurity is important to explain their electric property. Therefore it is interesting to understand the role of impurity in the medium. We find that at high temperature impurity with γ<-2 can change the electric property of the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium significantly.
The rest of the paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we represent the Lifshitz black brane solution including the manifest hyperscaling symmetry and its thermodynamics with explaining our conventions. In Section 3, the DC conductivities carried by two different charge carriers in the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium are studied. The results show that impurity with γ<-2 significantly changes the electric property of the Lifshitz medium at high temperature. Finally, we finish this work with some concluding remarks.
2. Thermodynamic Properties
There exist many scale-invariant field theories without the Lorentz invariance near the critical points [13, 15]. One of such examples is the Lifshitz theory
(1)S[χ]=∫d3x[(∂tχ)2-K(∇2χ)2],
which describes a fixed line parameterized by K with a dynamical exponent z=2 [19]. Following the gauge/gravity duality, such a nonrelativistic theory can be mapped to a Lifshitz geometry as a dual gravity. There are several bottom-up models, gravity with higher form fields [17] and gravity with a massive gauge field and nondynamical scalar field. These models have been widely investigated by many authors [19, 47, 60]. Another example appears as a geometric solution of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory. In this paper we will concentrate on the latter case.
Our starting action is the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a negative cosmological constant Λ(2)SEMd=116πG∫dDx-gxxxxxxxxxxx×(R-2Λ-12∂μϕ∂μϕ-14eλϕFμνFμν),
with
(3)Fμν=∂μAν-∂νAμ,
where λ is a constant describing the coupling between the gauge field and dilaton. From this action, the black brane geometry satisfying all equations of motion is given by [18, 48, 49]
(4)ds2=-r2zf(r)dt2+dr2r2f(r)+r2(dx2+dy2),ϕ(r)=-4λlogr,Frt=∂rAt=qrz+1,
with
(5)f(r)=1-rhz+2rz+2,(6)λ=2z-1,q=2(z-1)(z+2),Λ=-(z+1)(z+2)2,
where rh implies the black brane horizon. It is worthwhile noting that the Lifshitz black brane is not a charged but uncharged solution because the charge q is not a free parameter describing a hair of the black brane. In other words, once the intrinsic parameters of the theory, Λ and λ, are given, the dynamical exponent z and the charge q are automatically determined. In that sense, the Lifshitz black brane geometry might be corresponding to the microcanonical ensemble while the charged black branes are described by a grandcanonical or canonical ensemble. For z=1, dilaton and bulk gauge field automatically vanish and the Lifshitz geometry simply reduces to an ordinary AdS geometry where the conformal symmetry is restored. In [61–63], this uncharged Lifshitz black brane was further generalized to the charged case by adding additional gauge fields and their electric and thermodynamic properties were studied.
Note that the above Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory preserves a scaling symmetry. When r scales as Ωr, other variables should scale like
(7)rh⟶Ωrh,t⟶Ω-zt,x⟶Ω-1x,y⟶Ω-1y,eϕ⟶Ω-4/λeϕ,q⟶Ω0q,Frt⟶Ωz+1Frt,At⟶Ωz+2At.
These scaling behaviors are different from those of the different Lifshitz models. Then, the time component gauge field satisfying the above scaling is given by
(8)At=qz+2(rz+2-rhz+2),
where the last term corresponds to a new integration constant and we choose a specific value such that the norm of At is regular even at the black brane horizon. The energy and temperature of this system should scale as the inverse of time, E→ΩzE and T→ΩzT. After expanding the metric near the horizon and requiring that there is no conical singularity, the Hawking temperature is determined to be
(9)T=z+24πrhz,
which shows the correct scaling behavior mentioned previously. The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is
(10)S=V24Grh2,
where V2 implies a spatial volume of the boundary space and scales like V2→Ω-2V2. Therefore, the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is invariant under the scaling transformation.
Using the first law of thermodynamics together with the above Hawking temperature and Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, the internal energy E and the free energy F are given by
(11)E=V28πGrhz+2,F=-zV216πGrhz+2.
Using the definition of pressure P=-∂F/∂V2, we can easily evaluate the equation of state parameter of the Lifshitz black brane
(12)w=PV2E=z2.
This implies, according to the gauge/gravity duality, that the dual theory is not conformal except the AdS case with the dynamical exponent z=1. Note that it was shown, in the gravity theory with a massive gauge field and nondynamical scalar field (In [19], only the z=2 case has been considered and the black brane factor is given by f(r)=1-rh2/r2 in our notations, which is different from the present one, f(r)=1-rh4/r4 in (5). Although the asymptotic geometries of these two different theories are exactly same, the Hawking temperature due to the difference of inside geometry can have different values. For example, T=rh2/2π in [19] and T=rh2/π in our case.), that the equation of state parameter is given by 1 for z=2. The specific heat of this system becomes in terms of temperature
(13)Cv=V22zG(4πz+2)2/zT2/z.
Since it is positive for z>0, the dual Lifshitz theory is always thermodynamically stable. In the zero temperature limit rh→0, the internal and free energies in (11) become zero. Comparing them with the results at finite temperature, since the free energy at finite temperature is always negative for z>0, the Lifshitz black brane is always preferable. This fact implies that there is no Hawking-Page transition. A similar situation also occurs in the relativistic nonconformal theory [32].
3. DC Conductivities in the Nonrelativistic Lifshitz Medium
In order to understand macroscopic properties of a nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium, it is useful to investigate the holographic linear response of various fluctuations. Here, we will concentrate on the electric properties of a nonrelativistic Lifshitz theory with two different charge carriers. To do so, we consider a more general Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory
(14)Sg=116πG×∫dDx-gxxx×(R-2Λ-12∂μϕ∂μϕ-14eλϕFμνFμν-14eγϕHμνHμν),
with
(15)Fμν=∂μAν-∂νAμ,Hμν=∂μBν-∂νBμ,
where Aμ and Bμ are two different U(1) vector fields with different dilaton couplings. In this model, the previous Lifshitz black brane geometry appears as a specific solution for Bμ=0. In the dual Lifshitz theory point of view, these two different vector fields correspond to two different matters.
Now, let us turn on vector and metric fluctuations on the Lifshitz black brane geometry. If we denote aμ and bμ as fluctuations of Aμ and Bμ respectively, they are governed by the following action at quadratic order:
(16)Sfluc=Sa+Sb,
with
(17)Sa=116πG∫d4x-g(ℛ-eλϕ4fμνfμν),(18)Sb=-116πG∫d4x-geγϕ4hμνhμν,
where fμν=∂μaν-∂νaμ and hμν=∂μbν-∂νbμ. There is no mixing term between aμ and bμ at quadratic order, so one can describe those two fluctuations independently. Note that since the fluctuation aμ, which is called Lifshitz matter, is coupled to the metric fluctuations through the background gauge field even at quadratic order, one should take into account the metric fluctuations simultaneously. As will be shown, the coupling to the metric fluctuations dramatically changes the DC conductivity carried by the Lifshitz matter. The other fluctuation, bμ, is a new one which corresponds to impurity in the dual Lifshitz field theory. Since impurity has nothing to do with the background gauge field at quadratic order, there is no mixing with the metric fluctuation [49, 64]. In addition, the coupling parameter γ can have an arbitrary number, which may depend on the kind of impurity. From now on we concentrate on the z=2 case, which provides an interesting example for a nonrelativistic Lifshitz theory, and take the zero momentum limit because the DC conductivity is well defined even in this limit. In the following sections, we will investigate the DC conductivities carried by impurity and Lifshitz matter with the Kubo formula and show that the different charge carriers lead to the different electric properties.
3.1. DC Conductivity Carried by Impurity
First, let us study the DC conductivity carried by impurity with the Kubo formula. From the action (18) for impurity, the transverse mode, bi (i=x or y), is governed by
(19)0=∂μ[-geγϕgμρgiσ(∂ρbσ-∂σbρ)].
For z=2 and in the zero momentum limit, under the following Fourier mode expansion:
(20)bi(t,r)=∫dω2πe-iωtbi(ω,r),
the governing equation simply reduces to
(21)0=bi′′+(3-2γr+f′f)bi′+ω2r6f2bi.
At the horizon, bi has two independent solutions
(22)bi(r)=c1f±ν,
with ν=i(ω/4rh2), where c1 is an appropriate normalization constant and the minus or plus sign satisfies the incoming or outgoing boundary condition at the horizon. After choosing an incoming solution, the solution of (21) in the hydrodynamic limit (ω≪T) can be perturbatively expanded to
(23)bi(r)=f-ν[G0(r)+ωG1(r)]+𝒪(ω2).
In this hydrodynamic expansion, G0(r), G1(r), and all higher order terms should be regular at the horizon which is called a regularity condition. In addition, the above perturbative solution should be reduced to (22) at the horizon, so G0(r) should be a normalization constant c1 at the horizon and at the same time the other terms, G1(rh) and higher order terms, should vanish. We call such a constraint a vanishing condition. Using these two conditions, the perturbative solutions can be exactly determined up to one integration constant
(24)G0(r)=c1,G1(r)=c3-ic1[4logr-log(r4-rh4)]4rh2vvvvvvv-((c4[F21(1+γ,1,2+γ,-r2rh2)xxxxxxxxxx+F21(1+γ,1,2+γ,r2rh2)]r2+2γ)xxxxxxx×(4(1+γ)rh4)-1[F21(1+γ,1,2+γ,-r2rh2)),
with
(25)c3=(ic1[-PG(0,1+γ2)+PG(0,1+γ2)xxxxxxx+(0,1+γ2)+PG(0,1+γ2)2{EG-log2+PG(0,1+γ)}γ2])×(8rh2)-1,c4=-ic1rh-2γ,
where PG and EG mean the poly gamma and Euler gamma function, respectively. In order to determine the remaining integration constant c1, we should impose another boundary condition. At the asymptotic boundary, the vector fluctuation bi has the following asymptotic expansion:
(26)bi(r)=b1+b2r2γ-2,
where b1 (or b2) is a constant determined by the asymptotic boundary condition.
3.1.1. For γ<1
If γ is smaller than 1, the asymptotic behavior of bi(r) is determined by the first term b1. According to the usual gauge/gravity duality, the first coefficient corresponds to the source while the second describes the vacuum expectation value (vev) of the dual operator. In this case, it is natural to impose the Dirichlet boundary condition like
(27)b0≡limr0→∞bi(r0),
where r0 implies an appropriate UV cutoff of the dual theory and b0 corresponds to the boundary value of bi which is equal to b1 for γ<1. Comparing the asymptotic expansion of the perturbative solution (23) with the above boundary condition (27), the remaining integration constant c1 can be rewritten in terms of the boundary value b0 as
(28)c1=8irh2b0×(8irh2+ω[HN(γ2)-HN(-1+γ2)xxxxxxxxxxxxx-2HN(γ)+2log2+2πtan(πγ2)-1+γ2])-1,
where HN means a harmonic number.
The boundary action corresponding to the on-shell action of (18) is given by
(29)SB=-116πG∫r=r0d3x-geγϕgrrgiibibi′≈-116πG∫d3xrh-2γr03-2γb0bi′.
This result shows that the finite contributions to the boundary action can come from bi′~r0-3+2γ when r0→∞. Since the asymptotic expansion of bi′ from (23) has
(30)bi′=-ic1ωrh2γ1r03-2γ+𝒪(1r5),
the current-current retarded Green function [58, 59] results in
(31)〈JiJi〉=iω16πG1rh2γ+𝒪(ω2),
where (28) is used. Finally, the DC conductivity from the Kubo formula reads
(32)σDC≡limω→0〈JiJi〉iω=116πγ+1G1Tγ.
3.1.2. For γ≥1
Let us take into account the case with γ≥1. In this case, the DC conductivity carried by impurity shows a totally different behavior compared with the previous case because the interpretation of the asymptotic solution should be modified. From now on, we will concentrate on the case with γ=2 for later comparison with the DC conductivity carried by Lifshitz matter.
Similar to (23), the perturbative expansion of solution in the zero momentum limit is given by
(33)bi(r)=f-ν[G0(r)+ωG1(r)+ω2G2(r)]+𝒪(ω3),
where ν=i(ω/4rh2). In this case, ω2G2(r) is important to determine the DC conductivity unlike the previous case. The solutions, G0(r) and G1(r), satisfying the regularity and vanishing condition at the horizon are
(34)G0(r)=c1,G1(r)=-[i2rh4r2-π+2i(1-log2)4rh2xxxxxxxx+irh2logr-i2rh2log(r2+rh2)]c1.
After inserting these two solutions into (21), we can find the analytic form of G2(r) which has the following expansion near the horizon:
(35)G2(r)=12c6rh6-c1(6log2-10-3πi)48rh4log(r-rh)+c5+rh2(2+πi-logrh)4c6+5π2+8(9-10log2+3(log2)2)+12πi(3+2log2)96rh4c1+(-20+42πi+60log2)logrh+48(logrh)296rh4c1+𝒪(r-rh).
Again, imposing the regularity and vanishing condition at the horizon, c5 and c6 are fixed to be
(36)c5=-[32+4πi+11π2-56log2+36πilog2+24(log2)296rh4xxxx+48(πi+log2)logrh96rh4+(logrh)22rh4]c1,c6=6log2-10-3πi12rh6c1.
Before calculating the conductivity, it is worth to note that for γ≥1 the second terms in (26) are more dominant when determining the asymptotic behavior of impurity. This implies that the previous Dirichlet boundary condition in (27) cannot fix b1, so we need to modify the asymptotic boundary condition. A natural choice is choosing the second coefficient b2 as a source rather than the first and then fixing it by an appropriate boundary condition. Following this strategy, the appropriate asymptotic boundary condition for γ≥1 should be [57]
(37)b0=limr0→∞bi(r0)r02γ-2.
Especially, for γ=2 the boundary condition reduces to
(38)b0=limr→∞bi(r0)r02.
Using (34) and (36) together with the exact solution for G2(r), we can easily find the asymptotic expansion of bi(r) up to ω2 and comparing it with the boundary condition in (38) determines c1 in terms of b0(39)c1=24irh4ω[12rh2+iω(6log2-10-3πi)]b0.
At first glance, it looks extraordinary because c1 is proportional to ω-1. However, near the horizon it still becomes a solution whose normalization constant is proportional to ω-1.
Since the boundary action for γ=2 is given by
(40)SB=-116πG∫d3xr0b0bi′,
only bi′~r0-1 can provide the finite contribution to the boundary action. If (∂/∂r)(f-νG0) or (∂/∂r)(f-νωG1) contains such a term, the DC conductivity diverges with ω-2 or ω-1, respectively, because c1~1/ω. This fact says that the finite contribution to the DC conductivity is determined not by ωG1 but by ω2G2. In the asymptotic region (r0→∞), the expansion of bi′ has the following form:
(41)bi′=#r0+#r03+𝒪(1r05),
where # implies a certain number. This result shows that bi′ has no term proportional to r0-1 so that the finite part of the resulting boundary action becomes zero. Consequently, the DC conductivity carried by impurity for γ=2 vanishes:
(42)σDC=0forγ=2.
Before concluding this section, there is an important remark. The result in (42) is totally different from that of the membrane paradigm. In the membrane paradigm, the DC conductivity especially for impurity can be represented only by the horizon quantities. The resulting form for z=2 is [33, 55, 56]
(43)σDC=eγϕ16πGggttgrrgii|rh=116πγ+1G1Tγ.
This is exactly the form obtained in the previous section for γ<1. However, it is not consistent with the result for γ=2. The reason is that in the Kubo formula the asymptotic boundary condition is modified for γ≥1 while the membrane paradigm does not care about the asymptotic behavior of the solution. Because of that, the membrane paradigm is consistent with the Kubo formula only for γ<1. Following the spirit of the AdS/CFT correspondence, physical quantities like the correlation functions of the dual field theory should be holographically governed by bulk field fluctuations near the asymptotic region. In this sense, the Kubo formula results seem to be more fundamental.
3.2. DC Conductivity Carried by Lifshitz Matter
Now, consider Lifshitz matter instead of impurity. Generally, if there exists a background gauge field, the transverse mode of its fluctuation should be coupled to the shear mode of the metric fluctuations [40]. Therefore, in order to study the linear response of such an U(1) gauge field, we should also consider the metric shear mode. The equations governing the transverse and shear modes can be derived from (17). After the Fourier mode expansion
(44)gti(t,r)=∫dω2πe-iωtgti(ω,r),ai(t,r)=∫dω2πe-iωtai(ω,r),
the governing equations for shear modes reduce to
(45)0=gti′+qr5-zai,(46)0=gti′′+(5-z)rgti′+qr5-zai′,
where gti and ai imply gti(ω,r) and ai(ω,r). The first equation (45) is a constraint which automatically satisfies the second equation (46). The equation governing the transverse modes leads to
(47)0=ai′′+rf′+(z-3)frfai′+qr3-zfgti′+w2r2+2zf2ai.
Inserting the constraint into (47), the decoupled differential equation of the transverse mode becomes
(48)0=ai′′+rf′+(z-3)frfai′+(w2r2z+2f2-q2r2f)ai.
At the horizon, due to vanishing of f, ai should have the following two independent solutions up to an overall normalization constant
(49)ai~f±i(ω/4rh2),
where the plus or minus sign again implies the outgoing or incoming mode. In the hydrodynamic limit, after taking only the incoming part, the near horizon solution of ai can be expanded into
(50)ai=f-i(ω/4rh2)[G0(r)+ωG1(r)]+𝒪(ω2),
where G0(r) and G1(r) should be regular functions at the black brane horizon. After substituting the perturbative expansion into (48), one can solve it order by order. For z=2, G0 has the following exact solution at ω0 order:
(51)G0=c1(r4+rh4)-c2r28rh4+c2(r4+rh4)8rh6arctanh(r2rh2),
where c1 and c2 are two integration constants. Imposing the regularity condition at the horizon, c2=0 because arctanh(r2/rh2) diverges. Consequently,
(52)G0=c1(r4+rh4).
Using this result, at next order of ω the solution of G1 is given by
(53)G1=c3(r4+rh4)-c4r28rh4-ic1(r4+rh4)logrrh2+(r4+rh4)(c4+i4c1rh4)log(r2+rh2)16rh6-(r4+rh4)(c4-i4c1rh4)log(r2-rh2)16rh6.
Since the last term diverges at the horizon, the regularity condition determines
(54)c4=i4c1rh4.
In addition, the vanishing condition fixes the rest integration constant as
(55)c3=-ic1(2log2-1)4rh2.
Now, let us consider the asymptotic behavior of the solution. Unlike the impurity case, the asymptotic behavior of ai is totally different from that of bi due to the nontrivial mixing with the shear mode. From (48), the asymptotic behavior for z=2 is governed by
(56)0=ai′′-1rai′-8r2ai,
where the last term is originated from the shear mode. At the asymptotic boundary, ai has the following perturbative solution:
(57)ai=a1r4+a2r2,
where a1 is a constant to be determined by the asymptotic boundary condition. One can identify the coefficients of the nonnormalizable and normalizable modes, a1 and a2, with the source and expectation value of the dual operator, respectively. In order to fix the boundary value of ai, we impose the following boundary condition at the asymptotic boundary:
(58)a0≡limr→∞ai(r)r4.
Then, the integration constant c1 is fixed in terms of the boundary value a0 to be
(59)c1=4rh2a04rh2-iω(2log2-1).
From the action (17), the boundary term of the Lifshitz matter becomes
(60)SB=-116πG∫d3x-geλϕgrrgiiai∂rai=-116πG∫d3xr03a0∂rai,
where one can see that the finite part of the retarded Green function comes from ∂rai~r0-3. When ignoring the divergent parts corresponding to the contact terms, the DC conductivity carried by the Lifshitz matter leads to
(61)σDC=π12GT2.
This result shows that the DC conductivity carried by a Lifshitz matter is totally different from that carried by impurity for γ=2.
Impurity in semiconductor dramatically changes the electric property of matter from an insulator at low temperature to a conductor at high temperature. In many condensed matter systems like a semiconductor, impurity plays a crucial role in physics so that it is important to understand the effect of such impurity. In this paper, we holographically realize impurity by turning on a different bulk vector fluctuation in the Lifshitz black brane geometry. In the dual theory point of view, it corresponds to inserting impurity into the Lifshitz medium. Depending on the kind of impurity parameterized by γ, it can dramatically change the electric property of the Lifshitz matter. For instance, if impurity is characterized by γ<-2, the DC conductivity of the Lifshitz matter is not affected by impurity at low temperature. However, at high temperature the DC conductivity of impurity is dominant so that the electric property of the Lifshitz matter with impurity can show totally different behavior from the pure Lifshitz matter.
4. Discussion
We have investigated thermodynamics and hydrodynamics of the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium with two types of charge carriers. To do so, we considered Lifshitz black brane solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity. There are several models describing the same asymptotic Lifshitz geometry. Although all models give rise to the same thermodynamic relation and the equation of state parameter, the details of the thermodynamic quantities are different due to the different interior metric. In this paper, we clarified the scaling behaviors of all fields and thermodynamic quantities of the Lifshitz black brane geometry derived from the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton gravity.
After that, we have studied the holographic responses of two types of vector fluctuations which describe the DC conductivities carried by two different charge carriers, impurity and the Lifshitz matter, in the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium. In this case, to realize impurity on the dual gravity we have turned on another vector fluctuation in the Lifshitz black brane geometry. For the DC conductivity carried by impurity, there are two different methods, the Kubo formula and membrane paradigm. In the nonrelativistic Lifshitz medium, these two formulas give the same result for γ<1 but we found that there exists a marked discrepancy for γ≥1. For γ≥1, one should change the asymptotic boundary condition to find the DC conductivity. This fact can be consistently imposed in the Kubo formula, while the membrane paradigm, because it is described by only information at the horizon, cannot know this fact. In that sense, the Kubo formula looks more fundamental.
For the DC conductivity carried by the Lifshitz matter, its dual vector fluctuation is coupled to the metric fluctuation through the background gauge field. The coupling with the metric fluctuation leads to a nontrivial DC conductivity proportional to the square of temperature for z=2. Like an example of semiconductor, we found that impurity with γ<-2 can crucially modify the electric property of the nonrelativistic Lifshitz matter at high temperature.
Finally, the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory studied in this paper has a negative cosmological constant and allows the Lifshitz geometry with a hyperscaling symmetry. If one modifies this negative cosmological constant to a Liouville-type of the dilaton potential, the deformed theory gives rise to the hyperscaling violation geometry in which both the scaling and boundary Lorentz symmetries are broken. In this set-up, it is interesting to investigate the various thermodynamic and hydrodynamic properties of the dual nonrelativistic theory without a scaling symmetry. We hope to report some interesting results on these issues in future works.
Conflict of Interests
The author declares that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.
Acknowledgments
This work has been supported by the WCU Grant no. R32-10130 and the Research Fund no. 1-2008-2935-001-2 by Ewha Womans University. Chanyong Park was also supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (NRF-2013R1A1A2A10057490).
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