8937 1508.02390 10.1007/JHEP09(2018)009 9 9 Evolution of holographic Fermi arcs from a Mott insulator Regular Article - Theoretical Physics 1 13 2018 9 3 2018 6 23 2018 8 24 2018 9 3 The Author(s) 2018 Garrett Vanacore vanacor2@illinois.edu Srinidhi T. Ramamurthy ramamur2@illinois.edu Philip W. Phillips dimer@illinois.edu 0000 0004 1936 9991 grid.35403.31 Department of Physics and Institute for Condensed Matter Theory University of Illinois 1110 W. Green Street Urbana IL 61801 U.S.A. Abstract We study fermions in asymptotically anti-de Sitter black hole spacetimes which interact via novel chiral symmetry-preserving interactions. Computing the dual fermion two-point correlator, we show that these bulk interactions anisotropically gap Fermi surfaces of the boundary spectrum. Consequently, the interactions we devise provide holographic models for Fermi arcs seen ubiquitously in the pseudogap regime of the cuprates. Our interactions are modifications of the chiral symmetry-breaking Pauli coupling, which has previously been proposed as the holographic realization of Mott physics. The onset of Mott insulation and pseudogap physics are respectively discussed in the context of bulk chiral and boundary parity symmetry breaking, and the Mott transition is interpreted as a deconfinement transition of non-Fermi liquid excitations. Keywords Holography and condensed matter physics (AdS/CMT) AdS-CFT Correspondence Gauge-gravity correspondence ArXiv ePrint: 1508.02390 Guggenheim Fellow. (Philip W. Phillips)