Physics

Many condensed matter experiments measure the transport properties of finite temperature many-body systems in the vicinity of a zero temperature quantum phase transition. Although there are often no well-defined particle-like excitations at such...

I will discuss the supergravity description of various configurations of supersymmetric M-fivebranes wrapped on calibrated cycles of special holonomy manifolds. For known examples of Anti-de Sitter near-horizon limit solutions, I will construct a...