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I review how the application of superconformal quantum mechanics and light-front holography leads to new insights into the physics of color confinement, the spectroscopy and dynamics of hadrons, as well as surprising supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Stanley J. Brodsky

We present a Bayesian holographic model constructed by integrating the equation of state and baryon number susceptibility at zero chemical potential from lattice QCD. The model incorporates error estimates derived from lattice data. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-01 Liqiang Zhu , Xun Chen , Kai Zhou , Hanzhong Zhang , Mei Huang

Using (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD data, we refine the parameters of an analytical holographic model via gradient descent optimization to precisely locate the critical endpoint in the $T-\mu$ plane. Specifically, we calibrate the model using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-02 Xun Chen , Floriana Giannuzzi , Stefano Nicotri

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

A holographic model of QCD in the limit of large number of colors, $N_c$, and massless fermion flavors, $N_f$, but constant ratio $x_f=N_f/N_c$ is analyzed at finite temperature and chemical potential. The five dimensional gravity model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-04 T. Alho , M. Jarvinen , K. Kajantie , E. Kiritsis , C. Rosen , K. Tuominen

Based on lattice QCD results of equation of state (EOS) and baryon number susceptibility at zero baryon chemical potential, and supplemented by machine learning techniques, we construct the analytic form of the holographic black hole metric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-02 Xun Chen , Mei Huang

Distinguishing different subphases in the supercritical region is a fundamental issue in statistical physics and condensed matter physics. Traditional approaches mainly rely on static thermodynamic response functions or equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Zi-Qiang Zhao , Zhang-Yu Nie , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The QCD phase diagram is crucial for understanding strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions, with major implications for cosmology, neutron stars, and heavy-ion collisions. We present a novel holographic QCD model utilizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-22 Rong-Gen Cai , Song He , Li Li , Hong-An Zeng

In this paper we study the dynamical instability of Sakai-Sugimoto's holographic QCD model at finite baryon density. In this model, the baryon density, represented by the smeared instanton on the worldvolume of the probe D8-\overline{D8}…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-13 Wu-yen Chuang , Shou-Huang Dai , Shoichi Kawamoto , Feng-Li Lin , Chen-Pin Yeh

We study the phase structure of QCD matter using a dynamical Einstein--Maxwell--Dilaton holographic model, using both thermodynamic and dynamical observables. Depending on the warp factor, the model admits either a standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-25 Leila Shahkarami , Farid Charmchi

We study quantum criticality in a holographic Einstein--Maxwell--Dilaton--Axion (EMDA) p-wave superconductor exhibiting a superconductor--insulator transition (SIT). By tracking the superconducting energy gap, we show that approaching the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-18 Zhe Yang , Fang-Jing Cheng , Guoyang Fu , Yi Ling , Peng Liu , Jian-Pin Wu

We propose an extension of Light-Front Holographic QCD (LFHQCD) to investigate non-equilibrium real-time dynamics and transport properties of strongly coupled QCD matter. While LFHQCD has been successfully applied to hadronic spectroscopy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Fidele J. Twagirayezu

A class of Polyakov-loop-modified Nambu--Jona-Lasinio (PNJL) models have been used to support a conjecture that numerical simulations of lattice-regularized quantum chromodynamics (QCD) defined with a chiral chemical potential can provide…

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 study the nearly critical behaviour of holographic superfluids at finite temperature and chemical potential. Using analytic techniques in the bulk, we derive an effective theory for the long wavelength dynamics of gapless and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-25 Aristomenis Donos , Polydoros Kailidis

Strongly interacting matter undergoes a crossover phase transition at high temperatures $T\sim 10^{12}$ K and zero net-baryon density. A fundamental question in the theory of strong interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), is whether a…

The critical sector of strong interactions at high temperatures is explored in the frame of two complementary approaches: Statistical Bootstrap for the hadronic phase and Lattice QCD for the Quark-Gluon partition function. A region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , A. S. Kapoyannis

Using holographic duality, we present an analytically controlled theory of quantum critical points without quasiparticles, at finite disorder and finite charge density. These fixed points are obtained by perturbing a disorder-free quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-10-05 Xiaoyang Huang , Subir Sachdev , Andrew Lucas

One of the most important parts of the QCD phase diagram of strongly interacting matter is the Critical End Point. The non-monotonic behavior of the conserved quantities like net-baryon ($\Delta B$), net-charge ($\Delta Q$), and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-30 A. Sarkar , P. Deb , Bidhan Mandal , R. Varma

We calculate the holographic entanglement entropy for the holographic QCD phase diagram considered in [Knaute, Yaresko, K\"ampfer (2017), arXiv:1702.06731] and explore the resulting qualitative behavior over the temperature-chemical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 J. Knaute , B. Kämpfer