Dynamics of Non-supersymmetric Flavours
Abstract
We investigate the effect of the back-reaction by non-supersymmetric probes in the Kuperstein-Sonnenschein model. In the limit where the back-reaction is small, we discuss physical properties of the back-reacted geometry. We further introduce additional probe flavours in this back-reacted geometry and study in detail the phase structure of this sector when a constant electromagnetic field or a chemical potential are present. We find that the Landau pole, which serves as the UV cut-off of the background geometry, also serves as an important scale in the corresponding thermodynamics of the additional flavour sector. We note that since these additional probe flavours are indistinguishable from the back-reacting flavours, the results we obtain point to a much richer phase structure of the system.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1306.2178,
title = {Dynamics of Non-supersymmetric Flavours},
author = {M. Sohaib Alam and Matthias Ihl and Arnab Kundu and Sandipan Kundu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.2178},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
36 pages, 10 figures, pdfTeX, v2: corrected caption for figure 5, v3: rewritten parts of section 2 and 3 in terms of an effective 't Hooft coupling at the temperature scale, submitted to JHEP