Spatially modulated phases in holography Seminar

There a wide variety of systems in nature that exist in spatially modulated phases which spontaneously break translation invariance. Common examples include charge density waves and spin density waves in which the charge density and spin density is, respectively, spatially modulated. Furthermore, it is also possible to have spatially modulated superconducting states of matter. The lecture will give an overview of how spatially modulated phases can be holographically realised as novel black hole solutions using the AdS/CFT correspondence.