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Selected writings

Argument that strings in 5D and M2-branes in 7D pick up an anyonic phase when their worldvolumes are braided around each other:

• Sean A. Hartnoll: Anyonic strings and membranes in AdS space and dual Aharonov-Bohm effects, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98 (2007) 111601 [arXiv:hep-th/0612159, doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.111601]

Discussion of superconductivity via AdS/CFT in condensed matter physics:

• Sean Hartnoll, Christopher Herzog, Gary Horowitz: Building an AdS/CFT superconductor, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101 (2008) 031601 [arXiv:0803.3295]

• Sean Hartnoll, Christopher Herzog, Gary Horowitz: Holographic Superconductors, JHEP 0812:015 (2008) [arXiv:0810.1563, doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2008/12/015]

On AdS/CFT in condensed matter physics:

• Sean Hartnoll, Lectures on holographic methods for condensed matter physics, Class. Quant. Grav. 26:224002, 2009 (arXiv:0903.3246)

• Sean A. Hartnoll: Horizons, holography and condensed matter, in: Black Holes in Higher Dimensions, Cambridge University Press (2012) [doi:10.1017/CBO9781139004176.015, arXiv:1106.4324]

• Sean Hartnoll, Andrew Lucas, Subir Sachdev, Holographic quantum matter, MIT Press 2018 (arXiv:1612.07324, publisher)

• Mike Blake, Yingfei Gu, Sean A. Hartnoll, Hong Liu, Andrew Lucas, Krishna Rajagopal, Brian Swingle, Beni Yoshida, Snowmass White Paper: New ideas for many-body quantum systems from string theory and black holes [arXiv:2203.04718]

On effective field theory in solid state physics/condensed matter theory:

• Tomáš Brauner, Sean A. Hartnoll et al: Snowmass White Paper: Effective Field Theories for Condensed Matter Systems, Snowmass 2021 [arXiv:2203.10110, inSpire:2055714]

On the IKKT matrix model:

• Sean A. Hartnoll, Jun Liu: The Polarised IKKT Matrix Model [arXiv:2409.18706]

• Sean A. Hartnoll, Jun Liu: Statistical Physics of the Polarised IKKT Matrix Model [arXiv:2504.06481]

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