Improved holographic QCD

U Gursoy, E Kiritsis, L Mazzanti… - From Gravity to Thermal …, 2011 - Springer
We provide a review to holographic models based on Einstein-dilaton gravity with a
potential in five dimensions. Such theories, for a judicious choice of potential are very close …

Generalised global symmetries in holography: magnetohydrodynamic waves in a strongly interacting plasma

S Grozdanov, N Poovuttikul - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We begin the exploration of holographic duals to theories with generalised global
(higher-form) symmetries. In particular, we focus on the case of magnetohydrodynamics …

Holographic calculation of the electric conductivity of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma near the deconfinement transition

SI Finazzo, J Noronha - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
The frequency dependent conductivity σ (ω) of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma is
estimated using a bottom up holographic model that can adequately describe recent lattice …

D3-D7 quark-gluon plasmas

F Bigazzi, AL Cotrone, J Mas, A Paredes… - Journal of High …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the string dual to finite temperature SU (N c) Script N= 4 SYM coupled to
massless fundamental matter introduced by N f D7 branes, with Abelian flavor symmetry …

Nonlocal probes of thermalization in holographic quenches with spectral methods

A Buchel, RC Myers, A van Niekerk - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We describe the application of pseudo-spectral methods to problems of
holographic thermal quenches of relevant couplings in strongly coupled gauge theories. We …

Connecting Polyakov loops to the thermodynamics of gauge theories using <?format ?>the gauge-string duality

J Noronha - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2010 - APS
We show that in four-dimensional gauge theories dual to five-dimensional Einstein gravity
coupled to a single scalar field in the bulk, the derivative of the single heavy quark free …

Universal properties of cold holographic matter

N Jokela, AV Ramallo - Physical Review D, 2015 - APS
We study the collective excitations of holographic quantum liquids formed in the low energy
theory living at the intersection of two sets of D-branes. The corresponding field theory dual …

An elementary stringy estimate of transport coefficients of large temperature QCD

F Bigazzi, AL Cotrone - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
Modeling QCD at large temperature with a simple holographic five dimensional theory
encoding minimal breaking of conformality, allows for the calculation of all the transport …

Universal thermal and electrical conductivity from holography

S Jain - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2010 - Springer
It is known from earlier work of Iqbal, Liu [1] that the boundary transport coefficients such as
electrical conductivity (at vanishing chemical potential), shear viscosity etc. at low frequency …

Second-order hydrodynamics and universality in non-conformal holographic fluids

P Kleinert, J Probst - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2016 - Springer
A bstract We study second-order hydrodynamic transport in strongly coupled non-conformal
field theories with holographic gravity duals in asymptotically anti-de Sitter space. We first …