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Advances in the holographic description of hot and dense QCD matter
Nicolas Kovensky, Andreas Schmitt
We review and extend recent progress on QCD-like phases at nonzero temperature and chemical potentials within the gauge-gravity duality. We focus on the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model…
Softening holographic nuclear matter
Christian Ecker, Nicolas Kovensky, Orestis Papadopoulos +1
Baryons in the holographic Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model are described by instanton solutions on the flavor branes. A commonly used approximation for dense baryonic matter replaces t…
Thermal pion condensation: holography meets lattice QCD
Nicolas Kovensky, Andreas Schmitt
The holographic Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model is often employed to describe strongly-coupled baryonic and isospin-asymmetric matter, for example in the context of neutron stars. Here…
Phases of cold holographic QCD: baryons, pions and rho mesons
Nicolas Kovensky, Aaron Poole, Andreas Schmitt
We improve the holographic description of isospin-asymmetric baryonic matter within the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model by accounting for a realistic pion mass, computing the pion cond…
Building a realistic neutron star from holography
Nicolas Kovensky, Aaron Poole, Andreas Schmitt
We employ the recently improved description of dense baryonic matter within the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model to construct neutron stars. In contrast to previous holographic approach…
Isospin asymmetry in holographic baryonic matter
Nicolas Kovensky, Andreas Schmitt
We study baryonic matter with isospin asymmetry, including fully dynamically its interplay with pion condensation. To this end, we employ the holographic Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto mode…
Heavy Holographic QCD
Nicolas Kovensky, Andreas Schmitt
We study the phase structure of the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model in the plane of temperature and baryon chemical potential, including the effect of a nonzero current quark mass. Our…