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The density response of charged liquids contains a collective excitation known as the plasmon. In holographic systems with translational invariance the origin of this collective excitation is traced back to the presence of zero-sound. Using a holographic model in which translational symmetry is broken pseudo-spontaneously, we show the density response is not dominated by a single isolated mode at low momentum and temperature. As a consequence, the density response contains a broad asymmetric peak with an attenuation which does not increase monotonically with momentum and temperature.
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Romero-Bermúdez, A. Density response of holographic metallic IR fixed points with translational pseudo-spontaneous symmetry breaking. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 153 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)153
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