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hep-th2025

Subtleties of non-Abelian D-brane actions and their effect on holographic heavy-light meson spectra

Carlos Hoyos, Niko Jokela, Andrea Olzi

We revisit the holographic description of heavy light mesons in the D3-D7 system at zero temperature, analyzing the dynamics of the coupled probe D7 branes through the non-Abelian…

hep-th2025

Entanglement C-functions of defects and interfaces in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Niko Jokela, Jani Kastikainen, José Manuel Penín +2

We consider planar codimension-one defects and interfaces in supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory, realized by the D3/D5-brane intersection. Working in the probe…

hep-th2025★ 1 cited

Testing the effective action approach to bubble nucleation in holography

Oscar Henriksson, Niko Jokela, Xin Li

The nucleation of bubbles during a first-order phase transition has recently been explored using holographic duality, which can provide an important complement to standard perturba…

astro-ph.HE2025

Locating the QCD critical point with neutron-star observations

Christian Ecker, Niko Jokela, Matti Järvinen

We present a probabilistic model for the QCD critical endpoint (CEP) and the equation of state (EOS) at -equilibrium, constrained by neutron-star observations. Using a hybrid fr…

hep-th2025

On entanglement c-functions in confining gauge field theories

Niko Jokela, Jani Kastikainen, Carlos Nunez +3

Entanglement entropy has proven to be a powerful tool for probing renormalization group (RG) flows in quantum field theories, with c-functions derived from it serving as candidate…

hep-th2025

Bulk metric reconstruction from entanglement data via minimal surface area variations

Niko Jokela, Tony Liimatainen, Miika Sarkkinen +1

We investigate the reconstruction of asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AdS) bulk geometries from boundary entanglement entropy data for ball-shaped entangling regions. By deriving an…