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20122026
most citedThe finite 't Hooft coupling correction on the jet quenching parameter in a Super Yang-Mills Plasma

25 citations · 233 across the 32 of their papers we have counts for

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32 papers

hep-ph2026

Spin alignment of vector mesons in a plasma at finite density

Fei Wang, Zi-qiang Zhang

Holographic predictions for vector meson spin alignment at finite density have been limited by how the chemical potential is implemented. Existing models use a baryon chemical pote…

hep-ph2026

Holographic light quark jet quenching in flavor resolved QCD plasmas

Huwei Zhu, Ke Ma, Zi-qiang Zhang

We study light quark energy loss in a quark-gluon plasma using the holographic falling-string framework on a machine-learning-calibrated Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton background for thr…

hep-ph2026

Gluon condensate effects on heavy quarkonium spectral functions and thermal dissociation

Fei Wang, Zi-qiang Zhang

We investigate how the gluon condensate modifies the thermal spectral functions and melting patterns of heavy vector mesons, specifically charmonium and bottomonium, using an impro…

hep-th2026

Which scale breaks quarkonium? A controlled comparison of density and momentum relaxation in holographic QCD

Wenxing Cheng, Zi-qiang Zhang, Yunxianghui Wang

In a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) that is both dense and dissipative, do static color screening and thermodynamic response follow the same medium scale? The question matters because he…

hep-th2025

Holographic Schwinger effect with Translational Symmetry Breaking

Sara Tahery, Wenxing Cheng, Zi-qiang Zhang +1

We investigate the holographic Schwinger effect in a background with translational symmetry breaking (TSB) at finite chemical potential. The gravitational background is characteriz…

hep-ph2022★ 8 cited

Holographic imaginary potential of a quark antiquark pair in the presence of gluon condensation

Sara Tahery, Xurong Chen, Zi-qiang Zhang

For a moving heavy quark antiquark () in a quark gluon plasma (QGP), we use gauge/gravity duality to study both real and imaginary parts of the potential (Re$V_{Q\bar{Q}}…

nucl-th2022★ 7 cited

Entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium in a rotating hot and dense medium from holography

Ping-ping Wu, Zi-qiang Zhang, Xiangrong Zhu

Previous studies have indicated that the peak of the quarkonium entropy at the deconfinement transition can be related to the entropic force which would induce the dissociation of…

hep-th2022★ 8 cited

Holographic Schwinger effect in a rotating strongly coupled medium

Yi-ze Cai, Rui-ping Jing, Zi-qiang Zhang

We perform the potential analysis for the holographic Schwinger effect in a rotating deformed AdS black-hole background. We calculate the total potential of a quark-antiquark ($Q\b…

hep-ph2021★ 1 cited

Entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium with hyperscaling violation

Ang Li, Zi-qiang Zhang

We study the entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium in strongly coupled theories with an anisotropic scaling symmetry in time and spatial direction. We consider Lifshitz and hype…

nucl-th2020★ 7 cited

Light quark energy loss in a soft-wall AdS/QCD model

Xiangrong Zhu, Zi-qiang Zhang

We investigate the energy loss of light quarks in a holographic QCD model with conformal invariance broken by a background dilaton. We perform the analysis within falling string an…

hep-th2020★ 6 cited

Holographic Schwinger effect in a soft wall AdS/QCD model

Yue Ding, Zi-qiang Zhang

We perform the potential analysis for the holographic Schwinger effect in a deformed model with conformal invariance broken by a background dilaton. We evaluate the static…

nucl-th2020★ 1 cited

Jet quenching parameter from a soft wall AdS/QCD model

Xiangrong Zhu, Zi-qiang Zhang

We study the effect of chemical potential and nonconformality on the jet quenching parameter in a holographic QCD model with conformal invariance broken by a background dilaton. It…

hep-th2020★ 9 cited

Entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium in heavy quark cloud

Zi-qiang Zhang

Previous research has shown that the peak of the quarkonium entropy at the deconfinement transition would be related to the entropic force which induces the melting of quarkonium.…

hep-th2020★ 14 cited

Effect of gluon condensate on holographic Schwinger effect

Zi-qiang Zhang, Xiangrong Zhu, De-fu Hou

We perform the potential analysis in holographic Schwinger effect in a deformed anti-de Sitter (AdS) background with backreaction due to the gluon condensate. We determine the pote…

hep-th2018★ 4 cited

corrections to holographic Schwinger effect

Fei Li, Zi-qiang Zhang, Gang Chen

We consider corrections to the holographic Schwinger effect in an AdS black hole background and a confining D3-brane background. The potential between a test particle pair ar…

hep-th2018★ 6 cited

Drag force in a D-instanton background

Zi-qiang Zhang, Zhong-jie Luo, De-fu Hou

We study the drag force and diffusion coefficient with respect to a moving heavy quark in a D-instanton background, which corresponds to the Yang-Mills theory in the deconfining, h…

hep-th2018★ 14 cited

Higher derivative corrections to the entropic force from holography

Zi-qiang Zhang, Zhong-jie Luo, De-fu Hou

The entropic force has been recently argued to be responsible for dissociation of heavy quarkonia. In this paper, we analyze corrections and corrections to the entropic…

hep-th2018★ 17 cited

Drag force in strongly coupled SYM plasma in a magnetic field

Zi-qiang Zhang, Ke Ma, De-fu Hou

Applying AdS/CFT correspondence, we study the effect of a constant magnetic field on the drag force associated with a heavy quark moving through a strongly-coupled $\…

hep-th2018★ 10 cited

Imaginary potential in strongly coupled SYM plasma in a magnetic field

Zi-qiang Zhang, De-fu Hou

We study the effect of a constant magnetic field on the imaginary part of a quarkonia potential in a strongly-coupled SYM plasma. We consider the pair axis to be al…

hep-th2017★ 7 cited

Imaginary potential of moving quarkonia in a D-instanton background

Zi-qiang Zhang, De-fu Hou, Gang Chen

The imaginary part of the inter-quarks potential of moving heavy quarkonia is investigated in a dual supergravity of the AdS background deformed by dilaton, which induces the gauge…

hep-th2017★ 7 cited

corrections to holographic Schwinger effect

Zi-qiang Zhang, Chong Ma, De-fu Hou +1

We study corrections to the holographic Schwinger effect in an AdS black hole background and a confining D3-brane background, respectively. The potential analysis for these b…

hep-th2017★ 8 cited

Holographic Schwinger effect with a moving D3-brane

Zi-qiang Zhang, De-fu Hou, Gang Chen

We study the Schwinger effect with a moving D3-brane in a =4 SYM plasma with the aid of AdS/CFT correspondence. We discuss the test particle pair moving transverse and…

hep-ph2017★ 7 cited

Entropic destruction of heavy quarkonium from a deformed model

Zi-qiang Zhang, Zhong-jie Luo, De-fu Hou +1

In this paper, we study the destruction of heavy quarkonium due to the entropic force in a deformed model. The effects of the deformation parameter on the inter-distance an…

hep-th2016★ 24 cited

The effect of chemical potential on imaginary potential and entropic force

Zi-qiang Zhang, De-fu Hou, Gang Chen

Imaginary potential and entropic force represent different mechanisms for melting the heavy quarkonium. In this paper, we study the chemical potential effect on these two quantitie…