In this review article, we describe the role of holography in deciphering the physics of dense
QCD matter, relevant for the description of compact stars and their binary mergers. We …

We review a selection of recent developments in the application of ideas of string theory to
heavy ion physics. Our topics divide naturally into equilibrium and non-equilibrium …

I review holographic models for (dense and cold) nuclear matter, neutron stars, and their
mergers. I start by a brief general discussion on current knowledge of cold QCD matter and …

The transport properties of dense QCD matter play a crucial role in the physics of neutron
stars and their mergers but are notoriously difficult to study with traditional quantum field …

Motivated by the possible presence of deconfined quark matter in neutron stars and their
mergers and the important role of transport phenomena in these systems, we perform the …

It has been conjectured that the speed of sound in holographic models with UV fixed points
has an upper bound set by the value of the quantity in conformal field theory. If true, this …

We use a top-down holographic model for strongly interacting quark matter to study the
properties of neutron stars. When the corresponding equation of state (EOS) is matched with …

In this paper, we present a holographic realization of spontaneous chiral symmetry breaking
and confinement. The latter is realized by building a solution of 5D Einstein-dilaton gravity …

A bstract Gravity solutions describing the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model of holographic QCD
with dynamical flavors are presented. The field theory is studied in the Veneziano limit, at …

We use gauge-gravity duality to study the temperature dependence of the zero sound mode
and the fundamental matter diffusion mode in the strongly coupled N= 4 SU (N c) …