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Many Phases of Generalized 3D Instanton Crystals
Matti Jarvinen, Vadim Kaplunovsky, Jacob Sonnenschein
Nuclear matter at large number of colors is necessarily in a solid phase. In particular holographic nuclear matter takes the form of a crystal of instantons of the flavor group. In…
Deconstructing the E_0 SCFT to Solve the Orbifold Paradox of the Heterotic M Theory
Jacob Claussen, Vadim Kaplunovsky
Many heterotic orbifold models have massless twisted-sector particles with simultaneous E8_1 and E8_2 charges. In the strong-coupling M-theory dual of the heterotic string this pos…
Holographic Baryons and Instanton Crystals
Vadim Kaplunovsky, Dmitry Melnikov, Jacob Sonnenschein
In a wide class of holographic models, like the one proposed by Sakai and Sugimoto, baryons can be approximated by instantons of non-abelian gauge fields that live on the world-vol…
Dimension Changing Phase Transitions in Instanton Crystals
Vadim Kaplunovsky, Jacob Sonnenschein
We investigate lattices of instantons and the dimension-changing transitions between them. Our ultimate goal is the 3D->4D transition, which is holographically dual to the phase tr…
Chiral Symmetry Breaking and External Fields in the Kuperstein-Sonnenschein Model
M. Sohaib Alam, Vadim S. Kaplunovsky, Arnab Kundu
A novel holographic model of chiral symmetry breaking has been proposed by Kuperstein and Sonnenschein by embedding non-supersymmetric probe D7 and anti-D7 branes in the Klebanov-W…
Baryonic Popcorn
Vadim Kaplunovsky, Dmitry Melnikov, Jacob Sonnenschein
In the large N limit cold dense nuclear matter must be in a lattice phase. This applies also to holographic models of hadron physics. In a class of such models, like the generalize…