Holographic metals and the fractionalized Fermi liquid

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We show that there is a close correspondence between the physical properties of holographic metals near charged black holes in anti-de Sitter (AdS) space, and the fractionalized Fermi liquid phase of the lattice Anderson model.

• The latter phase has a "small" Fermi surface of conduction electrons, along with a spin liquid of local moments.
• This correspondence implies that certain mean-field gapless spin liquids are states of matter at non-zero density realizing the near-horizon, AdS_2 x R^2 physics of Reissner-Nordstrom black holes.