Holographic chiral phase transition with chemical potential

preprint2006arXivOpen access

Abstract

We discuss the Sakai-Sugimoto model at finite temperature and finite chemical potential. It is a holographic model of large N_c QCD with N_f massless quarks based on a D4/D8-\bar{D8} brane system. The near horizon limit of the D4-branes and the probe approximation of the D8-\bar{D8} pairs allow us to treat the D4-branes as a gravitational background and the D8-\bar{D8} pairs as a probe which does not affect the background. We propose that the asymptotic value of a U(1) gauge field on the D8-\bar{D8}-branes is identified with the chemical potential for the baryon number. Using this chemical potential we analyze the phase structure of this model and find a chiral symmetry phase transition of the first order.

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