title: Quantum electron star.
abstract: We construct and probe a holographic description of a state of matter that results from coupling a Fermi liquid to a relativistic conformal field theory (CFT). The bulk solution is described by a quantum gas of fermions supported from collapse into the gravitational well of anti-de Sitter space by their own electrostatic repulsion. A physical interpretation of our result is that, in the probe limit studied here, the Landau quasiparticles survive this coupling to a CFT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Allais
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: McGreevy
authors.forename: S Josephine
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Suh