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Phase structure in a dynamical soft-wall holographic QCD model
A bstractWe consider the Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton system with an arbitrary kinetic gauge function and a dilaton potential. A family of analytic solutions is obtained by the potential reconstruction method. We then study its holographic dual QCD model. The kinetic gauge function can be fixed by requesting the linear Regge spectrum of mesons. We calculate the free energy to obtain the phase diagram of the holographic QCD model and interpret our result as the heavy quarks system by comparing the recent lattice QCD simulation. We finally obtain the equations of state in our model.
118075838
Temperature dependent transport coefficients in a dynamical holographic QCD model
A bstractWe investigate temperature dependent behavior of various transport coefficients in a dynamical holographical QCD model. We show the nontrivial temperature dependent behavior of the transport coefficients, like bulk viscosity, electric conductivity as well as jet quenching parameter, and it is found that all these quantities reveal information of the phase transition. Furthermore, with introducing higher derivative corrections in 5D gravity, the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio also shows a valley around phase transition, and it is found that the shear viscosity over entropy density ratio times the jet quenching over temperature cubic ratio almost remains as a constant above phase transition, and the value is two times larger than the perturbative result in Phys.Rev.Lett.99.192301(2007).
119239121
Thermodynamics of deformed AdS5 model with a positive/negative quadratic correction in graviton-dilaton system
By solving the Einstein equations of the graviton coupling with a real scalar dilaton field, we establish a general framework to self-consistently solve the geometric background with black-hole for any given phenomenological holographic models. In this framework, we solve the black-hole background, the corresponding dilaon field and the dilaton potential for the deformed AdS5 model with a positive/negative quadratic correction. We systematically investigate the thermodynamical properties of the deformed AdS5 model with a positive and negative quadratic correction, respectively, and compare with lattice QCD on the results of the equation of state, the heavy quark potential, the Polyakov loop and the spatial Wilson loop. We find that the bulk thermodynamical properties are not sensitive to the sign of the quadratic correction, and the results of both deformed holographic QCD models agree well with lattice QCD result for pure SU(3) gauge theory. However, the results from loop operators favor a positive quadratic correction, which agree well with lattice QCD result. Especially, the result from the Polyakov loop excludes the model with a negative quadratic correction in the warp factor of AdS5.
76649422
A hQCD model and its phase diagram in Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton system
A bstractBy use of the potential reconstruction approach we obtain a series of asymptotically AdS (aAdS) black hole solutions in an Einstein-Maxwell-Dilaton (EMD) system. Basing on the solutions of the system, we reconstruct a semi-analytical holographic QCD (hQCD) model with a quadratic term in warped factor. We discuss some aspects of the hQCD model, in particular we calculate the free energy of two static color sources (a heavy quark-antiquark pair) which is an important order parameter to describe confinement/deconfinement phase transition. The behavior of the free energy with respect to temperature and chemical potential is studied. We find that in the hQCD model the deconfinement phase transition can be realized and a critical point occurs. The resulting phase diagram in the temperature-chemical potential T − μ plane is in quite good agreement with the one from recent lattice results and effective models of QCD.
118538162
Hydrodynamics of a 5D Einstein-dilaton black hole solution and the corresponding BPS state
A bstractWe apply the potential reconstruction approach to generate a series of asymp-totically AdS (aAdS) black hole solutions, with a self-interacting bulk scalar field. Based on the method, we reproduce the pure AdS solution as a consistency check and we also generate a simple analytic 5D black hole solution. We then study various aspects of this solution, such as temperature, entropy density and conserved charges. Furthermore, we study the hydrodynamics of this black hole solution in the framework of fluid/gravity duality, e.g. the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy density. In a degenerate case of the 5D black hole solution, we find that the c function decreases monotonically from UV to IR as expected. Finally, we investigate the stability of the degenerate solution by studying the bosonic functional energy of the gravity and the Witten-Nester energy EWN. We confirm that the degenerate solution is a BPS domain wall solution. The corresponding superpotential and the solution of the killing spinor equation are found explicitly.
118646566
Pseudoscalar glueball in a chiral Lagrangian model with instanton effect
We study the pseudoscalar glueball ground state in a chiral effective Lagrangian model proposed by 't Hooft, motivated by taking into account the instanton effects, which can describe not only the chiral symmetry breaking, but also the solution of U{sub A}(1). We study the parameter space allowed by constraints from vacuum conditions and unitary bounds. By considering two scenarios in the 0{sup ++} sector, we find that parameter space which can accommodate the 0{sup -+} sector is sensitive to the conditions in 0{sup ++} sector. From our analysis, it is found that three {eta} states, i.e. {eta}(1295), {eta}(1405), {eta}(1475), can be the pseudoscalar glueball ground state if we assume that the lightest 0{sup ++} glueball ground state has a mass 1710 (or 1500) MeV. While there will be no 0{sup -+} glueball candidate ground state found in experiments if we assume that the lightest 0{sup ++} glueball ground state has a mass 660 MeV. We also point out the determined instanton density (i.e. the parameter k{sub t}) is consistent with those determined from other methods, e.g. instanton liquid approximation and lattice simulations.
118969895
The Kinematics of particles moving in rainbow spacetime
The kinematics of massive particles moving in rainbow spacetime is studied. We derive the equation of geodesics when the semiclassical effect of moving particles on the background is taken into account. In particular we show that in rainbow flat spacetime the trajectory of a freely falling particle remains unchanged which is still a straight line in energy-independent coordinate system. The implication to the Unruh effect in rainbow flat spacetime is also discussed.
53685436
Scattering of massless particles: scalars, gluons and gravitons
A bstractIn a recent note we presented a compact formula for the complete tree-level S-matrix of pure Yang-Mills and gravity theories in arbitrary spacetime dimension. In this paper we show that a natural formulation also exists for a massless colored cubic scalar theory. In Yang-Mills, the formula is an integral over the space of n marked points on a sphere and has as integrand two factors. The first factor is a combination of Parke-Taylor-like terms dressed with U(N ) color structures while the second is a Pfaffian. The S-matrix of a U(N ) × U(Ñ ) cubic scalar theory is obtained by simply replacing the Pfaffian with a U(Ñ ) version of the previous U(N ) factor. Given that gravity amplitudes are obtained by replacing the U(N ) factor in Yang-Mills by a second Pfaffian, we are led to a natural color-kinematics correspondence. An expansion of the integrand of the scalar theory leads to sums over trivalent graphs and are directly related to the KLT matrix. Combining this and the Yang-Mills formula we find a connection to the BCJ color-kinematics duality as well as a new proof of the BCJ doubling property that gives rise to gravity amplitudes. We end by considering a special kinematic point where the partial amplitude simply counts the number of color-ordered planar trivalent trees, which equals a Catalan number. The scattering equations simplify dramatically and are equivalent to a special Y-system with solutions related to roots of Chebyshev polynomials. The sum of the integrand over the solutions gives rise to a representation of Catalan numbers in terms of eigenvectors and eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of an A-type Dynkin diagram.
115780520
Scattering equations and Kawai-Lewellen-Tye orthogonality
Several recent developments point to the fact that rational maps from $n$-punctured spheres to the null cone of $D$-dimensional momentum space provide a natural language for describing the scattering of massless particles in $D$ dimensions. In this paper we identify and study equations relating the kinematic invariants ${s}_{ab}$ and the puncture locations ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{c}$, which we call the scattering equations. We provide an inductive algorithm in the number of particles for their solutions and prove a remarkable property which we call Kawai--Lewellen--Tye (KLT) orthogonality. In a nutshell, KLT orthogonality means that ``Parke--Taylor'' vectors constructed from the solutions to the scattering equations are mutually orthogonal with respect to the KLT bilinear form. We end with comments on possible connections to gauge theory and gravity amplitudes in any dimension and to the high-energy limit of string theory amplitudes.
119513103
Quantum entanglement of electromagnetic field in non-inertial reference frames
Recently relativistic quantum information has received considerable attention due to its theoretical importance and practical application. In particular, quantum entanglement in non-inertial reference frames has been studied for scalar and Dirac fields. As a further step along this line, we here shall investigate quantum entanglement of electromagnetic field in non-inertial reference frames. In particular, the entanglement of the photon helicity entangled state is extensively analysed. Interestingly, the resultant logarithmic negativity and mutual information remain the same as those for inertial reference frames, which is completely different from that previously obtained for the particle number entangled state.
118566832
Three-loop octagons and n-gons in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
A bstractWe study the S-matrix of planar $ \mathcal{N} $ = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory when external momenta are restricted to a two-dimensional subspace of Minkowski space. We find significant simplifications and new, interesting structures for tree and loop amplitudes in two-dimensional kinematics; in particular, the higher-point amplitudes we consider can be obtained from those with lowest-points by a collinear uplifting. Based on a compact formula for one-loop N2MHV amplitudes, we use an equation proposed previously to compute, for the first time, the complete two-loop NMHV and three-loop MHV octagons, which we conjecture to uplift to give the full n-point amplitudes up to simpler logarithmic terms or dilogarithmic terms.