String Theory and Quantum Chromodynamics

Abstract

I review recent progress on the connection between string theory and quantum chromodynamics in the context of the gauge/gravity duality. Emphasis is placed on conciseness and conceptual aspects rather than on technical details. Topics covered include the large-Nc limit of gauge theories, the gravitational description of gauge theory thermodynamics and hydrodynamics, and confinement/deconfinement thermal phase transitions.

38 pages, 24 figures. Lectures given at the RTN Winter School on "Strings, Supergravity and Gauge Theories" at CERN on January 15-19, 2007

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• Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory
• The Large N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity
• The World as a Hologram
• Viscosity in Strongly Interacting Quantum Field Theories from Black Hole Physics
• Wilson loops in large N field theories
• The order of the quantum chromodynamics transition predicted by the standard model of particle physics
• Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
• Macroscopic strings as heavy quarks: Large-N gauge theory and anti-de Sitter supergravity
• Minkowski-space correlators in AdS/CFT correspondence: recipe and applications
• Viscosity Information from Relativistic Nuclear Collisions: How Perfect is the Fluid Observed at RHIC?
• From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics
• The Effect of Shear Viscosity on Spectra, Elliptic Flow, and HBT Radii
• Quasinormal modes and holography
• Transport coefficients in high temperature gauge theories: (II) Beyond leading log
• Dimensional Reduction in Quantum Gravity
• Transport coefficients in high temperature gauge theories: (I) Leading-log results
• Entropy and Temperature of Black 3-Branes
• Universality of the shear viscosity in supergravity
• Schwinger-Keldysh Propagators from AdS/CFT Correspondence
• The AdS/CFT Correspondence and a New Positive Energy Conjecture for General Relativity
• Why does the Quark-Gluon Plasma at RHIC behave as a nearly ideal fluid ?
• A calculation of the bulk viscosity in SU(3) gluodynamics
• Coupling Constant Dependence in the Thermodynamics of N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory
• From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics. II. Sound waves
• Anti De Sitter Space And Holography
• Universailty of Low Energy Absorption Cross-sections for Black Holes
• Coupling constant dependence of the shear viscosity in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Holographic Phase Transitions with Fundamental Matter
• Thermodynamics of the brane
• Hydrodynamics of R-charged black holes
• Photon and dilepton production in supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
• On universality of stress-energy tensor correlation functions in supergravity
• Holographic spectral functions and diffusion constants for fundamental matter
• The Hydrodynamics of M-Theory
• Shear viscosity from R-charged AdS black holes
• Gauged supergravity from type IIB string theory on Y^{p,q} manifolds
• Viscosity of gauge theory plasma with a chemical potential from AdS/CFT correspondence
• The shear viscosity of gauge theory plasma with chemical potentials
• Thermal spectral functions of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
• Shear viscosity in weakly coupled $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory compared to QCD
• Holographic Viscosity of Fundamental Matter
• N=2* hydrodynamics
• Hydrodynamics of Sakai-Sugimoto model in the quenched approximation
• The Viscosity Bound Conjecture and Hydrodynamics of M2-Brane Theory at Finite Chemical Potential
• Lattice QCD at High Temperature and Density
• The shear viscosity of the non-commutative plasma
• Absorption of Scalars by Extended Objects
• Gravitational F-terms of N=1 Supersymmetric SU(N) Gauge Theories

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• Thermodynamics of SU(N) Yang-Mills theories in 2+1 dimensions II - The deconfined phase
• Casimir scaling and renormalization of Polyakov loops in large-N gauge theories
• Holographic Lessons for Quark Dynamics
• QCD Vacuum Properties in a Magnetic Field from AdS/CFT: Chiral Condensate and Goldstone Mass
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• AdS/CFT Energy Loss in Time-Dependent String Configurations
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• Stability and Quasinormal Modes of Black Holes in Conformal Weyl Gravity
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• Bifurcation of Plasma Balls and Black Holes to Lobed Configurations
• Collisions with Black Holes and Deconfined Plasmas
• Microscopic explanation for black hole phase transitions via Ruppeiner geometry: two competing factors-the temperature and repulsive interaction among BH molecules
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• Einstein-Yang-Mills AdS Black Brane Solution in Massive Gravity and Viscosity Bound
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• Two interacting current model of holographic Dirac fluid in graphene
• Bifurcation of the Maxwell quasinormal spectrum on asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes
• Phase diagram for non-axisymmetric plasma balls
• Hadron potentials within the gauge/string correspondence
• Subregion complexity in holographic thermalization with dS boundary
• Robustness of Sound Speed and Jet Quenching for Gauge/Gravity Models of Hot QCD
• Density driven symmetry breaking and Butterfly effect in holographic superconductors
• Colliding AdS gravitational shock waves in various dimensions and holography
• $\eta /s$ at finite coupling
• Does a Cloud of Strings Affect Shear Viscosity Bound?
• The fluid/gravity correspondence: Lectures notes from the 2008 Summer School on Particles, Fields, and Strings
• Subregion complexity and confinement-deconfinement transition in a holographic QCD model
• Isotropic AdS/CFT fireball
• Note on a non-critical holographic model with a magnetic field
• Chiral Symmetry Restoration in Holographic Noncommutative QCD
• Non-Vacuum AdS Cosmologies and the Approach to Equilibrium of Entanglement Entropy
• Geometric Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Minimal Area Principle
• The Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Soft-Wall AdS/QCD
• Geometric Josephson junction
• Viscosity of holographic fluid in the presence of dark matter sector
• Holographic Superconductors in a Cohesive Phase
• Holographic phase transition in a non-critical holographic model
• A Holographic model for Non-Relativistic Superconductor
• Holographic flavor in the gauge/gravity duality
• Quantum corrections to screening at strong coupling
• Phenomenology of Strong Interactions -- Towards an Effective Theory for Low Energy QCD
• The Effect of Bulk Dimension in the presence of String Cloud on Viscosity Bound
• QCD, with Strings Attached
• The quark-gluon plasma and D6-branes on the conifold
• Shear Viscosity to Entropy Density for a Black Brane in 5-dimensional Einstein-Yang-Mills Gravity
• The ubiquity of black holes in modern physics
• AdS/CFT aspects of the cosmological QCD phase transition
• On the Baryonic Density and Susceptibilities in a Holographic Model of QCD
• Strongly Coupled Heavy and Light Quark Thermal Motion from AdS/CFT
• Geometric Approach to Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Application to Casimir Energy and Friction Properties
• Energy Momentum Tensor Correlators in Improved Holographic QCD
• On the Perturbative Evaluation of Thermal Green's Functions in the Bulk and Shear Channels of Yang-Mills Theory