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A note on conductivity and charge diffusion in holographic flavour systems

High Energy Physics - Theory 2009-04-24 v2

Abstract

We analyze the charge diffusion and conductivity in a Dp/Dq holographic setup that is dual to a supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory in p+1 dimensions with N_f<< N_c flavour degrees of freedom at finite temperature and nonvanishing U(1) baryon number chemical potential. We provide a new derivation of the results that generalize the membrane paradigm to the present context. We perform a numerical analysis in the particular case of the D3/D7 flavor system. The results obtained support the validity of the Einstein relation at finite chemical potential.

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@article{arxiv.0811.1750,
  title  = {A note on conductivity and charge diffusion in holographic flavour systems},
  author = {Javier Mas and Jonathan P. Shock and Javier Tarrio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.1750},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures, v2 with minor corrections

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