Holographic phase transitions at finite chemical potential

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DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/085zbMATH Open1245.81100arXiv0709.1225OpenAlexW3098866162MaRDI QIDQ445677FDOQ445677

Robert C. Myers, David Mateos, Shunji Matsuura, Rowan M. Thomson

Publication date: 26 August 2012

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Recently holographic techniques have been used to study the thermal properties of N=2 super-Yang-Mills theory, with gauge group SU(Nc) and coupled to Nf << Nc flavours of fundamental matter, at large Nc and large 't Hooft coupling. Here we consider the phase diagram as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential mu. For fixed mu < Nc Mq there is a line of first order thermal phase transitions separating a region with vanishing baryon density and one with nonzero density. For fixed mu > Nc Mq there is no phase transition as a function of the temperature and the baryon density is always nonzero. We also compare the present results for the grand canonical ensemble with those for canonical ensemble in which the baryon density is held fixed [1].


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1225





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