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From conformal to confining field theories using holography

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-03-05 v2

Abstract

We construct a new family of Type IIB backgrounds that are dual to five dimensional conformal field theories compactified and deformed by VEVs of certain operators. This generates an RG flow into a smooth background dual to non-SUSY gapped field theories in four dimensions. We study various holographic observables: a monotonic quantity associated with the number of degrees of freedom, Wilson loops that interpolate between conformal and confining behaviour with the possibility of screening, Entanglement Entropy, etc. We also give a prescription to compute the Holographic Complexity in this type of backgrounds and calculate the spectrum of spin-two glueballs of the field theories.

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@article{arxiv.2401.04158,
  title  = {From conformal to confining field theories using holography},
  author = {Ali Fatemiabhari and Carlos Nunez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.04158},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

32 pages, many extensive appendices; JHEP accepted version

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