High Temperature Superconductivity and Effective Gravity

We argue that an approach involving effective gravity could play a crucial role in elucidating the properties of the high temperature superconducting materials. In particular we propose that the high critical temperature might be naturally explained in a framework constructed as a direct condensed matter analog of the Randall-Sundrum approach to a geometrization of the hierarchy problem in high-energy physics.

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9 pages

gravitation: effective field theory
temperature: high
superconductivity
hierarchy
condensed matter
Randall-Sundrum model
dimension: 3
dimension: 4
Fermi liquid

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