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It is presently unknown how strong lattice potentials influence the fermion spectral function of the holographic strange metals predicted by the AdS/CFT correspondence. This embodies a crucial test for the application of holography to condensed matter experiments. We show that for one particular momentum direction this spectrum can be computed for arbitrary strength of the effective translational symmetry breaking potential of the so-called Bianchi-VII geometry employing ordinary differential equations. Deep in the strange metal regime we find rather small changes to the single-fermion response computed by the emergent quantum critical IR, even when the potential becomes relevant in the infra-red. However, in the regime where holographic quasi-particles occur, defining a Fermi surface in the continuum, they acquire a finite lifetime at any finite potential strength. At the transition from irrelevancy to relevancy of the Bianchi potential in the deep infra-red the quasi-particle remnants disappear completely and the fermion spectrum exhibits a purely relaxational behaviour.
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ArXiv ePrint: 1608.03738
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4425-3240 (N. Kaplis).
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8789-8703 (A. Krikun).
On leave from Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP), B. Cheryomushkinskaya 25, 117218 Moscow, Russia (A. Krikun).
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Bagrov, A., Kaplis, N., Krikun, A. et al. Holographic fermions at strong translational symmetry breaking: a Bianchi-VII case study. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 57 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP11(2016)057
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