Heavy Quarkonium Spectrum and Decay Constants from a Neural-Network-Based Holographic Model
Abstract
We present a data-driven inverse construction of the dilaton field in a bottom-up AdS/QCD description of heavy vector quarkonia. Instead of adopting an \emph{ad hoc} analytic ansatz, we use a multilayer perceptron to learn as a smooth function of the holographic coordinate, with imposed to ensure ultraviolet consistency. The dilaton and its derivatives obtained by automatic differentiation generate the holographic potential , and the associated Schr\"odinger-like equation is discretized and diagonalized to extract the low-lying eigenmodes. Masses and decay constants are then evaluated from the eigenvalues and the near-boundary behavior of the bulk-to-boundary modes. Training on PDG data for charmonium and bottomonium yields a non-quadratic dilaton profile that resolves the longstanding difficulty of simultaneously reproducing both the heavy-quarkonium spectrum and the monotonic suppression of leptonic decay constants with radial excitation. The combined fit achieves RMS deviations of (charmonium) and (bottomonium). This work establishes neural-network reconstruction as a flexible tool for holographic modeling and provides a basis for future extensions incorporating additional channels, lattice constraints, or finite-temperature backgrounds.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2601.18133,
title = {Heavy Quarkonium Spectrum and Decay Constants from a Neural-Network-Based Holographic Model},
author = {Yu Zhang and Xun Chen and Miguel Angel Martin Contreras},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.18133},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
20 pages, 3 figures, 2 tables