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Layered systems shows anisotropic transport properties. The interlayer conductivity show a general temperature dependence for a wide class of materials. This can be understood if conduction occurs in two different channels activated at…

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Thermodynamics and transport are investigated in a holographic QCD model that extends the Einstein--Maxwell--Dilaton framework by incorporating Gauss--Bonnet corrections. Model parameters are fixed using state-of-the-art lattice QCD…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-25 ChenWei Tong , Jie Zhou , YuanXu Wang , Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Li Li

We perform a study of possible instabilities of the infrared AdS2 x R2 region of solutions to Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton systems which exhibit an intermediate regime of hyperscaling violation and Lifshitz scaling. Focusing on solutions that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-25 Sera Cremonini , Annamaria Sinkovics

We study holographic phase transitions in (2+1) dimensions that possess interacting phases which result from a direct coupling between the two U(1) gauge fields. This can be interpreted as a non-minimal interaction between the electric and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-14 Nathalia P. Aprile , Betti Hartmann , Jutta Kunz

We study a simple holographic model for gauge theories near the conformal edge to show that the dilaton can be parametrically lighter than any other composite states. The masses of all composite states, except the Nambu-Goldstone bosons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-22 Jesús Cruz Rojas , Deog Ki Hong , Sang Hui Im , Matti Järvinen

We study holographic superconductor model with two scalar fields coupled to one single Maxwell field in the AdS soliton background away from the probe limit. We disclose properties of phase transitions mostly from the holographic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-14 Yan Peng , Guohua Liu

We analyze in detail the phenomenology of a model of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking inspired by walking technicolor, by using the techniques of the bottom-up approach to holography. The model admits a light composite scalar state,…

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The spectrum of bound states of special strongly coupled confining field theories might include a parametrically light dilaton, associated with the formation of enhanced condensates that break (approximate) scale invariance spontaneously.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Daniel Elander , Maurizio Piai , John Roughley

We describe the simplest holographic model for an s-wave unbalanced superconductor in 2+1 dimensions. We study its phase diagram and linear response features with particular attention to the possibility of spatially modulated phases (LOFF)…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-04-24 Daniele Musso

We consider the running coupling constant in holographic models supported by Einstein-dilaton-Maxwell action for heavy and light quarks. To obtain the dependence of the running coupling constant $\alpha$ on temperature and chemical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-12 Irina Ya. Aref'eva , Ali Hajilou , Pavel Slepov , Marina Usova

We introduce a new framework for constructing black hole solutions that are holographically dual to strongly coupled field theories with explicitly broken translation invariance. Using a classical gravitational theory with a continuous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Aristomenis Donos , Jerome P. Gauntlett

In this paper, we investigate holographic superconductors dual to asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar model with a non-minimal coupling between the scalar and Maxwell fields. In the probe limit, it shows…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-24 Yiqian Chen , Xiaobo Guo , Peng Wang

We investigate an anisotropic model of superconductors in the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton theory with a charged scalar field. It is found that the critical temperature decreases as the anisotropy becomes large. We then estimate the energy gap…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-21 Jun-ichirou Koga , Kengo Maeda , Kentaro Tomoda

We show that a class of Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) theories are related to higher dimensional AdS-Maxwell gravity via a dimensional reduction over compact Einstein spaces combined with continuation in the dimension of the compact space…

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We investigate holographic phase transitions affected by dark matter sector in the AdS soliton background away from the probe limit. When neglecting backreaction, the scalar charge q can be scaled unity without loss of generality. While…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-26 Yan Peng , Qiyuan Pan , Yunqi Liu

We develop a general framework for computing the holographic 2-point functions and the corresponding conductivities in asymptotically locally AdS backgrounds with an electric charge density, a constant magentic field, and possibly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-26 E. J. Lindgren , Ioannis Papadimitriou , Anastasios Taliotis , Joris Vanhoof

We study a non-minimal holographic superconductors model in both non-backreaction and fullbackreaction cases using an analytic method. We calculate the condensate of the dilaton and the critical temperature of the phase transition. We also…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 En-Jui Chang , Chia-Jui Chou , Yi Yang

We compute the direct current resistivity of a scale-invariant, $d$-dimensional strange metal with dynamic critical exponent $z$ and hyperscaling-violating exponent $\theta$, weakly perturbed by a scalar operator coupled to random-field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-04-02 Andrew Lucas , Subir Sachdev , Koenraad Schalm

We focus on a holographic approach to DIS at small-x in high energy where scattering is dominated by exchanging a Reggeized Graviton in $AdS_5$. We emphasize the importance of confinement, which corresponds to a deformation of $AdS_5$…

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