Spatially modulated phase in the holographic description of quark-gluon plasma

We present a string theory construction of a gravity dual of a spatially modulated phase. Our earlier work shows that the Chern-Simons term in the five-dimensional Maxwell theory destabilizes the Reissner-Nordström black holes in anti-de Sitter space if the Chern-Simons coupling is sufficiently high...

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Published inPhysical review letters Vol. 106; no. 6; p. 061601
Main Authors Ooguri, Hirosi, Park, Chang-Soon
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 11.02.2011
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Summary:We present a string theory construction of a gravity dual of a spatially modulated phase. Our earlier work shows that the Chern-Simons term in the five-dimensional Maxwell theory destabilizes the Reissner-Nordström black holes in anti-de Sitter space if the Chern-Simons coupling is sufficiently high. In this Letter, we show that a similar instability is realized on the world volume of 8-branes in the Sakai-Sugimoto model in the quark-gluon plasma phase. Our result suggests a new spatially modulated phase in quark-gluon plasma when the baryon density is above 0.8Nf  fm(-3) at temperature 150 MeV.
ISSN:1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/physrevlett.106.061601