TY - JOUR
T1 - A holographic model of deconfinement and chiral symmetry restoration
AU - Aharony, Ofer
AU - Sonnenschein, Jacob
AU - Yankielowicz, Shimon
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank S. Minwalla, H. Neuberger, B. Svetitsky, M. Van Raamsdonk and especially D. Kutasov for useful discussions. J.S. would like to thank O. Sonnenschein for helping with the drawings. This work was supported in part by a grant of DIP (H.52) and by the Albert Einstein Minerva Center for Theoretical Physics at the Weizmann Institute. The work of O.A. was supported in part by the Israel–US Binational Science Foundation, by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number 1399/04), by the Braun–Roger–Siegl foundation, by the European network HPRN-CT-2000-00122, by a grant from the G.I.F., the German–Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development, and by Minerva. The work of J.S. and S.Y. was supported in part by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number 03200306).
PY - 2007/6
Y1 - 2007/6
N2 - We analyze the finite temperature behavior of the Sakai-Sugimoto model, which is a holographic dual of a theory which spontaneously breaks a U(Nf)L × U(Nf)R chiral flavor symmetry at zero temperature. The theory involved is a 4 + 1 dimensional supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theory compactified on a circle of radius R with anti-periodic boundary conditions for fermions, coupled to Nf left-handed quarks and Nf right-handed quarks which are localized at different points on the compact circle (separated by a distance L). In the supergravity limit which we analyze (corresponding in particular to the large Nc limit of the gauge theory), the theory undergoes a deconfinement phase transition at a temperature Td = 1/2πR. For quark separations obeying L > Lc ≃ 0.97 * R the chiral symmetry is restored at this temperature, but for L < Lc ≃ 0.97 * R there is an intermediate phase which is deconfined with broken chiral symmetry, and the chiral symmetry is restored at TχSB ≃ 0.154/L. All of these phase transitions are of first order.
AB - We analyze the finite temperature behavior of the Sakai-Sugimoto model, which is a holographic dual of a theory which spontaneously breaks a U(Nf)L × U(Nf)R chiral flavor symmetry at zero temperature. The theory involved is a 4 + 1 dimensional supersymmetric SU(Nc) gauge theory compactified on a circle of radius R with anti-periodic boundary conditions for fermions, coupled to Nf left-handed quarks and Nf right-handed quarks which are localized at different points on the compact circle (separated by a distance L). In the supergravity limit which we analyze (corresponding in particular to the large Nc limit of the gauge theory), the theory undergoes a deconfinement phase transition at a temperature Td = 1/2πR. For quark separations obeying L > Lc ≃ 0.97 * R the chiral symmetry is restored at this temperature, but for L < Lc ≃ 0.97 * R there is an intermediate phase which is deconfined with broken chiral symmetry, and the chiral symmetry is restored at TχSB ≃ 0.154/L. All of these phase transitions are of first order.
KW - Chiral symmetry
KW - Gauge/gravity duality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.aop.2006.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.aop.2006.11.002
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AN - SCOPUS:34247860950
SN - 0003-4916
VL - 322
SP - 1420
EP - 1443
JO - Annals of Physics
JF - Annals of Physics
IS - 6
ER -