On stability and transport of cold holographic matter

DOI10.1007/JHEP09(2011)030zbMATH Open1301.81177OpenAlexW2009682544MaRDI QIDQ480595FDOQ480595

Authors: Yong-Cai Geng, Sumit K. Garg 

Publication date: 8 December 2014

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

Abstract: We use gauge-gravity duality to study the stability of zero-temperature, finite baryon density states of N=4 supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory coupled to a single massive fundamental-representation N=2 hypermultiplet in the large-Nc and large-coupling limits. In particular, we study the spectrum of mesons. The dual description is a probe D7-brane in anti-de Sitter space with a particular configuration of worldvolume fields. The meson spectrum is dual to the spectrum of fluctuations of worldvolume fields about that configuration. We use a combination of analytical and numerical techniques to compute the spectrum, including a special numerical technique designed to deal with singular points in the fluctuations' equations of motion. Despite circumstantial evidence that the system might be unstable, such as a finite entropy density at zero temperature and the existence of instabilities in similar theories, we find no evidence of any instabilities, at least for the ranges of frequency and momenta that we consider. We discover a pole on the imaginary frequency axis in a scalar meson two-point function, similar to the diffusive mode in the two-point function of a conserved charge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1108.1798

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zbMATH Keywords

AdS-CFT correspondencebrane dynamics in gauge theoriesD-branes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Nuclear physics (81V35) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory (81T30) Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics (81T60) Gravitational interaction in quantum theory (81V17) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70)

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