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We use the holographic V-QCD models to analyse the physics of dense QCD and neutron stars. Accommodating lattice results for thermodynamics of QCD enables us to make generic predictions for the Equation of State (EoS) of the quark matter…

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We develop a thermodynamically consistent nonperturbative framework for equilibrium QCD criticality, unifying DSE quark propagation, FRG flow, and PNJL thermodynamics for coupled chiral/deconfinement order parameters. A holographic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Sameer Ahmad Mir , Saeed Uddin , Swatantra Kumar Tiwari , Mir Faizal

We investigate the combined effects of rotation and finite quark chemical potential on inhomogeneous chiral condensation and the chiral phase diagram within the soft-wall holographic QCD model. Using the five-dimensional AdS-RN metric, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 D. -Y. Long , S. -Q. Feng

We study the dynamics of probe D7 $\overline{\rm D7}$ flavor probe branes in the background of near extremal D5 branes. This model is a holographic dual to a gauge theory with spontaneous breaking of a $U(N_f)_L\times U(N_f)_R$ chiral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-07 Benjamin A. Burrington , Jacob Sonnenschein

We discuss the influence of a helicity imbalance on the phase diagram of dense QCD at finite temperature. We argue that the helical chemical potential is a thermodynamically relevant quantity in theories with the mass gap generation. Using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 M. N. Chernodub , Victor E. Ambrus

We study dense nuclear and quark matter within a single microscopic approach, namely the holographic Sakai-Sugimoto model. Nuclear matter is described via instantons in the bulk, and we show that instanton interactions are crucial for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-28 Kazem Bitaghsir Fadafan , Farideh Kazemian , Andreas Schmitt

Charting the phase diagram of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) at large density is a challenging task due to the complex action problem in lattice simulations. Through simulations at imaginary baryon chemical potential $\mu_B$ we observe that,…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-11-03 Szabolcs Borsányi , Zoltán Fodor , Jana N. Guenther , Piyush Kumar , Paolo Parotto , Attila Pásztor , Chik Him Wong

We attempt to give a holographic description of the microscopic theory of a BCS superconductor. Exploiting the analogy with chiral symmetry breaking in QCD we use the Sakai-Sugimoto model of two D8 branes in a D4 brane background with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-22 S. Kalyana Rama , Swarnendu Sarkar , B. Sathiapalan , Nilanjan Sircar

We study the transport coefficients of Quark-Gluon-Plasma in finite temperature and finite baryon density. We use AdS/QCD of charged AdS black hole background with bulk-filling branes identifying the U(1) charge as the baryon number. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-25 Xian-Hui Ge , Yoshinori Matsuo , Fu-Wen Shu , Sang-Jin Sin , Takuya Tsukioka

We investigate cold dense matter in the context of Sakai and Sugimoto's holographic model of QCD in the Wigner-Seitz approximation. In bulk, baryons are treated as instantons on S^3\times R^1 in each Wigner-Seitz cell. In holographic QCD,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Keun-Young Kim , Sang-Jin Sin , Ismail Zahed

Using the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the D0-D4 background, we holographically compute the vacuum decay rate of the Schwinger effect in this model. Our calculation contains the influence of the D0-brane density which could be identified…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-12 Wenhe Cai , Kang-le Li , Si-wen Li

We investigate hadron spectra in 2-color QCD using lattice simulation with $N_{f}=2$ at low temperature and finite density in which there appears not only the hadronic phase but also the superfluid phase. We first calculate the pion and rho…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2022-11-28 Kotaro Murakami , Daiki Suenaga , Kei Iida , Etsuko Itou

QCD at large densities exhibits a moat regime in the scalar-pseudoscalar sector. The resolution of its dynamics is pivotal for the access to the onset of new phases including the potential critical endpoint of QCD. In this work we present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 Jan M. Pawlowski , Fabian Rennecke , Franz R. Sattler

By using gravity/gauge correspondence, we employ an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton model to compute the equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of a hot and baryon rich strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma. The family of 5-dimensional…

We use holographic techniques to study SU(Nc) super Yang-Mills theory coupled to Nf << Nc flavours of fundamental matter at finite temperature and baryon density. We focus on four dimensions, for which the dual description consists of Nf…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Shinpei Kobayashi , David Mateos , Shunji Matsuura , Robert C. Myers , Rowan M. Thomson

We calculate perturbatively the effect of density on hadronic properties using the chiral quark model implemented by the QCD trace anomaly to see the possibility of constructing Lorentz invariant Lagrangian at finite density. We calculate…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Youngman Kim , Hyun Kyu Lee

We study baryonic matter in holographic QCD with D4/D8/\bar{D8} multi-D brane system in type IIA superstring theory. The baryon is described as the "brane-induced Skyrmion", which is a topologically non-trivial chiral soliton in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 Kanabu Nawa , Hideo Suganuma , Toru Kojo

We study a random matrix model for QCD at finite density via complex Langevin dynamics. This model has a phase transition to a phase with nonzero baryon density. We study the convergence of the algorithm as a function of the quark mass and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2017-04-05 Jacques Bloch , Jonas Glesaaen , Owe Philipsen , Jacobus Verbaarschot , Savvas Zafeiropoulos

We show that holographic models of QCD predict the presence of a Chern-Simons coupling between vector and axial-vector mesons at finite baryon density. In the AdS/CFT dictionary, the coefficient of this coupling is proportional to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sophia K. Domokos , Jeffrey A. Harvey

We study a sector of the hadron spectrum in the presence of finite baryon density. We use a non-supersymmetric gravity dual to a confining guage theory which exhibits a running dilaton. The interaction of mesons with the finite density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-21 Yunseok Seo , Jonathan P. Shock , Sang-Jin Sin , Dimitrios Zoakos