Inverse magnetic catalysis in dense holographic matter

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DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)033zbMATH Open1301.81310arXiv1012.4785OpenAlexW2141710087WikidataQ114628081 ScholiaQ114628081MaRDI QIDQ476008FDOQ476008


Authors: Florian Preis, Anton Rebhan, Andreas Schmitt Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 November 2014

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

Abstract: We study the chiral phase transition in a magnetic field at finite temperature and chemical potential within the Sakai-Sugimoto model, a holographic top-down approach to (large-N_c) QCD. We consider the limit of a small separation of the flavor D8-branes, which corresponds to a dual field theory comparable to a Nambu-Jona Lasinio (NJL) model. Mapping out the surface of the chiral phase transition in the parameter space of magnetic field strength, quark chemical potential, and temperature, we find that for small temperatures the addition of a magnetic field decreases the critical chemical potential for chiral symmetry restoration - in contrast to the case of vanishing chemical potential where, in accordance with the familiar phenomenon of magnetic catalysis, the magnetic field favors the chirally broken phase. This "inverse magnetic catalysis" (IMC) appears to be associated with a previously found magnetic phase transition within the chirally symmetric phase that shows an intriguing similarity to a transition into the lowest Landau level. We estimate IMC to persist up to 10^{19} G at low temperatures.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1012.4785




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