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Condensed matter physics of a strongly coupled gauge theory with quarks: some novel features of the phase diagram
Thomas Faulkner, Hong Liu
We revisit the phase diagram of the N=4 SU(N_c) super-Yang-Mills theory coupled to N_f fundamental "quarks" at strong coupling using the gauge-gravity correspondence. We show that…
Universality of the hydrodynamic limit in AdS/CFT and the membrane paradigm
Nabil Iqbal, Hong Liu
We show that at the level of linear response the low frequency limit of a strongly coupled field theory at finite temperature is determined by the horizon geometry of its gravity d…
Meson widths from string worldsheet instantons
Thomas Faulkner, Hong Liu
We show that open strings living on a D-brane which lies outside an AdS black hole can tunnel into the black hole through worldsheet instantons. These instantons have a simple inte…
From Fake Supergravity to Superstars
Henriette Elvang, Daniel Z. Freedman, Hong Liu
The fake supergravity method is applied to 5-dimensional asymptotically AdS spacetimes containing gravity coupled to a real scalar and an abelian gauge field. The motivation is to…