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29 papers

hep-th2025

Electromagnetic instability of vacuum with instantons in the holographic plasma

Shao-cheng Hou, Si-wen Li

Using the gauge-gravity duality, we study the electromagnetic instability of vacuum with instantons in holographic plasma. The model we employ is the D(-1)-D3 brane system in which…

hep-th2025

Worldvolume fermion as baryon with homogeneous instantons in holographic

Si-wen Li, Xiao-tong Zhang

(ArXiv version) We investigate holographically the effective theory of the worldvolume fermion on the flavor branes in the D3/D7 model with homogeneously smeared D(-1)-branes. As a…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

Holographic spectroscopy of fermion with instantons

Si-wen Li, Yi-peng Zhang, Hao-qian Li

Using the gauge-gravity duality, we investigate the fermionic spectroscopy in the D(-1)-D3 brane system. The background geometry of this system described by IIB supergravity includ…

hep-th2024★ 4 cited

Out-of-time-order correlator as a detector of baryonic phase structure in holographic QCD with instanton

Si-wen Li, Yi-peng Zhang, Hao-qian Li

We study the out-of-time-order correlators (OTOC) of Skyrmion as baryon in the D0-D4/D8 model which is expected to be holographically dual to QCD with instantons as D0-branes or wi…

hep-th2024★ 2 cited

The worldvolume fermion as baryon in holographic QCD with instanton

Si-wen Li, Hao-qian Li, Yi-peng Zhang

In this work, we investigate the worldvolume fermion on the flavor brane in the D0-D4/D8 model which is holographically equivalent to the four-dimensional QCD with instantons, or e…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

Out-of-time-order correlators of Skyrmion as baryon in holographic QCD

Si-wen Li, Yi-peng Zhang, Hao-qian Li

As the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is a measure of quantum chaos and an important observable in the context of AdS/CFT, we investigate the OTOC of holographic Skyrmion whic…

hep-th2023★ 6 cited

Correlation function of flavored fermion in holographic QCD

Si-wen Li, Yi-peng Zhang, Hao-qian Li

By using the gauge-gravity duality, we investigate the correlation function of flavored fermion in the \mathrm{D}_{p}/\mathrm{D}_{p+4} model as top-down approaches of holographic Q…

hep-th2023★ 8 cited

The D4/D8 model and holographic QCD

Si-wen Li, Xiao-tong Zhang

As a top-down holographic approach, the D4/D8 model is expected to be the holographic version of QCD since it almost includes all the elementary features of QCD based on string the…

hep-th2022★ 3 cited

Corrections to the instanton configuration as baryon in holographic QCD

Si-wen Li, Hao-qian Li, Sen-kai Luo

In this work, we first derive the corrections to the instanton configuration of the flavored gauge field in the D4-D8 model with generic flavor numbers. Then, as the instanton conf…

hep-th2022★ 11 cited

Holographic Schwinger effect and electric instability with anisotropy

Si-wen Li, Sen-kai Luo, Hao-qian Li

According to the gauge-gravity duality, we systematically study the Schwinger effect and electric instability with anisotropy in a top-down holographic approach. The anisotropic bl…

hep-th2022★ 7 cited

Holographic and Chern-Simons theory from anisotropic supergravity

Si-wen Li, Sen-kai Luo, Ya-qian Hu

Based on the gauge-gravity duality, we study the three-dimensional QCD () and Chern-Simons theory by constructing the anisotropic black D3-brane solution in IIB s…

hep-th2021★ 8 cited

Three-dimensional Yang-Mills Chern-Simons theory from D3-brane background with D-instantons

Si-wen Li, Sen-kai Luo, Mu-zhi Tan

By constructing the configuration of D3-branes with D(-1)-branes as D-instantons, we study the three-dimensional Yang-Mills Chern-Simons theory in holography. Due to the presence o…

hep-th2020★ 6 cited

Holographic Schwinger effect in the confining background with D-instanton

Si-wen Li

Using the gauge-gravity duality, we study the holographic Schwinger effect by performing the potential analysis on the confining D3- and D4-brane background with D-instantons then…

hep-th2019★ 7 cited

The theta-dependent Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature in a holographic description

Si-wen Li

The theta-dependent gauge theories can be studied by using holographic duality through string theory on certain spacetimes. Via this correspondence we consider a stack of d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 75 cited

Topological band theory for non-Hermitian systems from the Dirac equation

Zi-Yong Ge, Yu-Ran Zhang, Tao Liu +3

We identify and investigate two classes of non-Hermitian systems, i.e., one resulting from Lorentz-symmetry violation (LSV) and the other from a complex mass (CM) with Lorentz inva…

hep-th2018★ 7 cited

A holographic description of heavy-flavoured baryonic matter decay involving glueball

Si-wen Li

We holographically investigate the decay of heavy-flavoured baryonic hadron involving glueball by using the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model. Since baryon in this model is recognized as…

hep-th2018★ 5 cited

The interaction of glueball and heavy-light flavoured meson in holographic QCD

Si-wen Li

We construct the D4/D8 brane configuration in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model by introducing a pair of heavy flavour brane with a heavy-light open string. The multiplets created by…

hep-th2017★ 7 cited

Holographic three flavor baryon in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model with the D0-D4 background

Wenhe Cai, Si-wen Li

With the construction of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the D0-D4 background, we systematically investigate the holographic baryon spectrum in the case of three flavors. The ba…

hep-th2017★ 7 cited

D-instantons in Real Time Dynamics

Si-wen Li, Shu Lin

Instanton is known to exist in Euclidean spacetime only. Their role in real time dynamics is usually understood as tunneling effect by Wick rotation. We illustrate other effects of…

hep-th2017★ 14 cited

Holographic heavy-baryons in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model with the D0-D4 background

Si-wen Li

We extend the holographic analysis of light-baryon spectrum in \cite{key-50} to the case involving the heavy flavors. With the construction of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in th…

hep-th2016★ 8 cited

Electromagnetic instability and Schwinger effect in the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model with D0-D4 background

Wenhe Cai, Kang-le Li, Si-wen Li

Using the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the D0-D4 background, we holographically compute the vacuum decay rate of the Schwinger effect in this model. Our calculation contains the…

hep-th2016★ 7 cited

Sound waves in the compactified D0-D4 brane system

Wenhe Cai, Si-wen Li

As an extension to our previous work, we study the transport properties of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the black D4-brane background with smeared D0-branes (D0-D4/D8 system)…

hep-th2016★ 29 cited

Dynamically flavored description of holographic QCD in the presence of a magnetic field

Si-wen Li, Tuo Jia

We construct the gravitational solution of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model by introducing a magnetic field on the flavor brane. With taking into account their backreaction, we re-s…

hep-th2016★ 11 cited

Three-body force for baryons from the D0-D4/D8 matrix model

Si-wen Li, Tuo Jia

This is an extensive work to our previous paper \cite{key-08} studied on the D0-D4/D8 holographic system. We compute the three-body force for baryons with the D0-D4/D8 matrix model…