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Plasma-Plasma Third Order Phase Transition from type IIB Supergravity

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-05-09 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We show that the planar, charged black hole in AdS, dual to the strongly coupled Quark-Gluon Plasma thermal state of large NN, SU(N)SU(N), N=4\mathcal{N}=4 super Yang-Mills at finite chemical potential undergoes a third-order phase transition in the grand canonical ensemble to a hairy black hole of type IIB supergravity. The hairy phase is another strongly coupled fluid with a conformal equation of state and can be interpreted as another kind of Quark-Gluon plasma. This new Quark-Gluon plasma has less entropy and, therefore, seems to characterize some form of smooth hadronization. The locus of the transition in terms of the "Baryon" chemical potential, μ\mu, and the temperature, TT, is μ=2πT\mu=2\pi T.

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@article{arxiv.2405.04611,
  title  = {Plasma-Plasma Third Order Phase Transition from type IIB Supergravity},
  author = {Andres Anabalon and Julio Oliva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.04611},
  year   = {2024}
}

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8 pages, 2 figures

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