Théorique, numérique
Strongly-coupled phases of matter such as are found in the strange metallic phase of high Tc superconductors deviate strongly from the Landau theory of Fermi liquids, which captures the low-energy physics of conventional metals. This suggests that the low-energy degrees of freedom are no weakly-coupled quasiparticles. Non-perturbative approaches which do not take quasiparticles as a starting point are gauge/gravity duality (aka holography or ads/cft) and hydrodynamic effective theories. The purpose of this internship is to explore how such methods may be applied to strongly-coupled phases of matter.