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We compute the vacuum one-loop quark-gluon vertex correction at zero temperature in the presence of a magnetic field. From the vertex function we extract the effective quark-gluon coupling and show that it grows with increasing magnetic…

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We advance the study of flat space holography by computing the entanglement entropy of highly excited states in two-dimensional Carrollian/Galilean Conformal Field Theories (C/G CFTs). Our approach is centered on a novel, physically…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Peng-Xiang Hao , Shunta Takahashi

We explore the emergence of gravitation from entanglement in holographic CFTs with gravitational anomalies. More specifically, the holographic correspondence between topologically massive gravity (TMG) with gravitational Chern-Simons term…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Hongliang Jiang

We explore the behaviour of renormalized entanglement entropy in a variety of holographic models: non-conformal branes; the Witten model for QCD; UV conformal RG flows driven by explicit and spontaneous symmetry breaking and Schr\"odinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-14 Marika Taylor , William Woodhead

We explore a fruitful connection between the physics of conformal field theories (CFTs) in d-dimensional Minkowski spacetime and the extended gravitational thermodynamics of hyperbolic black holes in (d+1)-dimensional anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-19 Clifford V. Johnson , Felipe Rosso

We investigate the combined finite-size and thermo-magnetic effects on the properties of the quark matter, in the context of the two-flavored Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. In particular, by using the mean-field approximation and the Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-18 Luciano M. Abreu , Emerson B. S. Corrêa , Elenilson S. Nery

We investigate the behaviour of various correlators in N=4 super Yang Mills theory, taking finite coupling corrections into account. In the thermal limit we investigate the flow of the quasinormal modes as a function of the 't Hooft…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-12 Stefan Stricker

We initiate an approach to constraining conformal field theory (CFT) data at finite temperature using methods inspired by the conformal bootstrap for vacuum correlation functions. We focus on thermal one- and two-point functions of local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-14 Luca Iliesiu , Murat Koloğlu , Raghu Mahajan , Eric Perlmutter , David Simmons-Duffin

In this work, we explore holographic entanglement entropy in the QCD phase diagram under an external magnetic field using an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model. We consider both the specious-confinement and deconfined phases. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-19 Man-Man Sun , Man-Li Tian , Zhou-Run Zhu

We consider free fermion and free boson CFTs in two dimensions, deformed by a chemical potential $\mu$ for the spin-three current. For the CFT on the infinite spatial line, we calculate the finite temperature entanglement entropy of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Shouvik Datta , Justin R. David , Michael Ferlaino , S. Prem Kumar

We investigate the effects of strong magnetic fields on the QCD phase structure at vanishing density by solving the gluon and quark gap equations, and by studying the dynamics of the quark scattering with the four-fermi coupling. The chiral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 Niklas Mueller , Jan M. Pawlowski

We consider planar codimension-one defects and interfaces in $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, realized by the D3/D5-brane intersection. Working in the probe limit, where the number of D5-branes is small compared to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-02 Niko Jokela , Jani Kastikainen , José Manuel Penín , Ronnie Rodgers , Helime Ruotsalainen

We study the Schwinger model at finite temperature and show that a temperature dependent chiral anomaly may arise from the long distance behavior of the electric field. At high temperature this anomaly depends linearly on the temperature…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 Ashok Das , J. Frenkel

We consider C*-algebras of finite higher-rank graphs along with their rotational action. We show how the entropy theory of product systems with finite frames applies to identify the phase transitions of the dynamics. We compute the positive…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2020-01-24 Evgenios T. A. Kakariadis

We investigate the behavior of energy momentum tensor correlators in holographic $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills plasma, taking finite coupling corrections into account. In the thermal limit we determine the flow of quasinormal modes as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Stefan A. Stricker

Conformal Field Theories (CFTs) are special classes of quantum field theories that find applications ranging from critical phenomena to theories of quantum gravity via holography. Understanding thermal effects in CFTs is crucial:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Miscioscia

We use the holographic method to investigate an RG flow and IR physics of a two-dimensional conformal field theory (CFT) deformed by a relevant scalar operator. On the dual gravity side, a renormalization group (RG) flow from a UV to IR CFT…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-11 Chanyong Park , Jung Hun Lee

We present arguments to the effect that time and temperature can be viewed as a form of quantum entanglement. Furthermore, if temperature is thought of as arising from the quantum mechanical tunneling probability this then offers us a way…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Vlatko Vedral

In this paper, we compute the exact form of the bulk geometry emerging from a $(1+1)$-dimensional conformal field theory using the holographic principle. We first consider the $(2+1)$-dimensional asymptotic $AdS$ metric in Poincare…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-03 Ashis Saha , Sourav Karar , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

Entanglement entropy in local quantum field theories is typically ultraviolet divergent due to short distance effects in the neighbourhood of the entangling region. In the context of gauge/gravity duality, we show that surface terms in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-04 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Aninda Sinha