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Universal magnetoresponse in QCD and $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-10-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice Nuclear Theory

Abstract

Using recent lattice data on the thermodynamics of QCD in the presence of a background magnetic field, we show that the ratio of transverse to longitudinal pressure exhibits, to good accuracy, a simple scaling behavior over a wide range of temperature and magnetic field, essentially depending only on the ratio T/BT/\sqrt B. We compare this QCD response to the corresponding magnetoresponse in maximally supersymmetric Yang Mills theory. Given suitable calibrations defining the comparison, we find excellent agreement. This may be viewed as a further test of the applicability of holographic models for hot QCD.

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@article{arxiv.1806.09632,
  title  = {Universal magnetoresponse in QCD and $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM},
  author = {Gergely Endrodi and Matthias Kaminski and Andreas Schafer and Jackson Wu and Laurence Yaffe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.09632},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

v2: fixed minor typos, published version; v1: 23 pages, 6 figures

R2 v1 2026-06-23T02:41:12.587Z