Massive Quantum Liquids from Holographic Angel's Trumpets
arXiv:1002.0336 · doi:10.1007/JHEP05(2010)019
Abstract
We explore the small-temperature regime in the deconfined phase of massive fundamental matter at finite baryon number density coupled to the 3+1 dimensional N=4 SYM theory. In this setting, we can demonstrate a new type of non-trivial temperature-independent scaling solutions for the probe brane embeddings. Focusing mostly on matter supported in 2+1 dimensions, the thermodynamics indicate that there is a quantum liquid with interesting density-dependent low-temperature physics. We also comment about 3+1 and 1+1 dimensional systems, where we further find for example a new thermodynamic instability.
18+1 pages, 6 figures; replaced fig. 6 and comments in sec. 5.2; minor explanations added and typos fixed, final version published in JHEP (modulo fig. 3); factor of \sqrtλ and corresponding comments fixed
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