Condensed Matter

We discuss bulk and holographic features of black hole solutions of 4D anti de Sitter Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton gravity. At finite temperature the field theory holographically dual to these solutions has a rich and interesting phenomenology reminiscent of electron motion in metals:
phase transitions triggered by nonvanishing VEV of scalar operators, non-monotonic behavior of the electric conductivities etc. Conversely, in the zero temperature limit the transport properties for these models show an universal behavior.

We will discuss the effect of non-equilibrium drive near a quantum
critical point in itinerant electron systems. Non-equilibrium field
theory is formulated in terms of the Keldysh functional integral.
The renormalization group approach is used to study the universality
class of the non-equilibrium phase transition in the steady state system.
The role of the non-equilibrium drive in the quantum-classical crossover
will be discussed using the example of the Hertz-Millis theory and
the generalization thereof.

The simulation of systems of anyons offers a significant challenge to
the condensed matter physicist. These systems are presently of
substantial theoretical and experimental interest due to their potential
for universal quantum computation, but due to their non-trivial exchange
statistics, the tools available for their study have been limited. In
this talk, I will present a formalism whereby any existing tensor
network algorithm may be adapted for use with both Abelian and
non-Abelian anyons, culminating in our recent simulations of infinite

More than forty years ago Nobel laureate P.W. Anderson studied the overlap between two nearby ground states. The result that the overlap tends to zero in the thermodynamics limit was catastrophic for those times. More recently the study of the overlap between ground states, i.e. the fidelity, led to the formulation of the so called fidelity approach to (quantum) phase transition (QPT).