On holographic phase transitions at finite chemical potential

dc.creatorMatsuura, Shunji
dc.date2007-11-02
dc.date2007-12-20
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T13:16:12Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T13:16:12Z
dc.descriptionRecent Holographic studies have shown that N=4 super Yang-Mills theory coupled to fundamental matter with finite chemical potential undergoes a first order phase transition. In this paper, we study Nf D6 probe branes with or without electric field on it in the black D4 brane background compactified on a circle with supersymmetry breaking boundary condition. At energy scales much lower than the compactification scale, the dual gauge theory is effectively four dimensional non-supersymmetric SU(Nc) Yang-Mills theory coupled to fundamental matter with or without baryon number charge. Within the supergravity approximation, the decoupling of the Kaluza-Klein modes is not fully realized. For chemical potential mu<NcMq there is a line of first order phase transitions from stable meson phase to unstable meson phase. On the other hand for mu>NcMq there is no phase transition and mesons are unstable. A peculiar and interesting property of this system is that for a certain range of chemical potential mu<NcMq, a new phase transition appears in the unstable meson phase. This phase transition is characterized by a discontinuous change of unstable meson lifetime.
dc.description24 pages, 16 figures; reference added
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0407
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0407
dc.identifierJHEP 0711:098,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/1126-6708/2007/11/098
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/230715
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleOn holographic phase transitions at finite chemical potential
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