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20082026
most citedA light scalar from walking solutions in gauge-string duality

88 citations · 754 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

hep-th2026

Dilatonic states, phase transitions, and criticality in holography

Daniel Elander, Maurizio Piai

The dilaton is the hypothetical scalar particle associated with spontaneous breaking of approximate scale invariance. It has been predicted to arise dynamically, as a bound state,…

hep-th2025★ 4 cited

Light dilaton near critical points in top-down holography

Daniel Elander, Antón F. Faedo, Maurizio Piai +2

We study a class of UV-complete, strongly coupled, confining three-dimensional field theories, that exhibit a novel stabilisation mechanism for the mass of the lightest scalar comp…

hep-lat2024

Progress on Holographic Vacuum Misalignment

Ali Fatemiabhari, Daniel Elander, Maurizio Piai

We summarise highlights from an ongoing research programme that aims, in the long run, at the ambitious goal of building a realistic, complete holographic composite-Higgs model. Th…

hep-th2024★ 1 cited

On Holographic Vacuum Misalignment

Daniel Elander, Ali Fatemiabhari, Maurizio Piai

We develop a bottom-up holographic model that provides the dual description of a strongly coupled field theory, in which the spontaneous breaking of an approximate global symmetry…

hep-th2023★ 15 cited

Toward minimal composite Higgs models from regular geometries in bottom-up holography

Daniel Elander, Ali Fatemiabhari, Maurizio Piai

We study a bottom-up, holographic description of a field theory yielding the spontaneous breaking of an approximate SO(5) global symmetry to its SO(4) subgroup. The weakly-coupled,…

hep-th2022★ 10 cited

Phase transitions and light scalars in bottom-up holography

Daniel Elander, Ali Fatemiabhari, Maurizio Piai

Within the bottom-up approach to holography, we construct a class of six-dimensional gravity models, and discuss solutions that can be interpreted, asymptotically in the far UV, in…