Unparticles and Mottness
I will begin this talk by using the standard procedure in condensed matter to count particles. For strongly correlated models relevant to high-temperature superconductors which are all doped Mott insulators, I will show that this procedure cannot account for all the charged degrees of freedom. The charged stuff which is left out cannot be given an interpretation in terms of particles. I will argue that the unparticle construction of Howard Georgi's makes up the difference. I will show how a gravity dual can be used to determine the scaling dimension of the unparticle propagator. I will close by elucidating a possible superconducting instability of unparticles and demonstrate that unparticle stuff is likely to display fractional statistics in the dimensionalities of interest for strongly correlated electron matter.