We review recent progress in studying mesons within gauge/gravity duality, in the context of
adding flavour degrees of freedom to generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our …

We present a holographic dual of four-dimensional, large N c QCD with massless flavors.
This model is constructed by placing Nf probe D8-branes into a D4 background, where …

Heavy ion collision experiments recreating the quark-gluon plasma that filled the nascent
universe have established that it is a nearly perfect liquid that flows with such minimal …

Within the AdS/CFT correspondence, we review the studies of field theories with a large
number of adjoint and fundamental fields, in the Veneziano limit. We concentrate in set‐ups …

The holographic dual of a finite-temperature gauge theory with a small number of flavours
typically contains D-brane probes in a black hole background. We have recently shown that …

We analyze the finite temperature behavior of the Sakai–Sugimoto model, which is a
holographic dual of a theory which spontaneously breaks a U (Nf) L× U (Nf) R chiral flavor …

We find non-critical string backgrounds in five and eight dimensions, holographically related
to four-dimensional conformal field theories with Script N= 0 and Script N= 1 …

We give a comprehensive treatment of the scalar potential for a D3-brane in a warped
conifold region of a compactification with stabilized moduli. By studying general ultraviolet …

The plasma phase at high temperatures of a strongly coupled gauge theory can be
holographically modelled by an AdS black hole. Matter in the fundamental representation …

Using AdS/CFT, we study the addition of an arbitrary number of backreacting flavors to the
Klebanov-Witten theory, making many checks of consistency between our new Type IIB plus …