Holography is perhaps the most powerful tool we have to investigate strongly-coupled field theories. In recent years, it has begun to find application to problems in condensed-matter physics. In this thesis, we review a number of such applications an...
Holography is perhaps the most powerful tool we have to investigate strongly-coupled field theories. In recent years, it has begun to find application to problems in condensed-matter physics. In this thesis, we review a number of such applications and the general state of the field.