Emergent Quantum Near-Criticality from Baryonic Black Branes

Nov, 2009
28 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 03 (2010) 093
e-Print:
Report number:
  • PUPT-2318

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Abstract: (arXiv)
We find new black 3-brane solutions describing the 'conifold gauge theory' at nonzero temperature and baryonic chemical potential. Of particular interest is the low-temperature limit where we find a new kind of weakly curved near-horizon geometry/ it is a warped product AdS_2 x R^3 x T^{1,1} with warp factors that are powers of the logarithm of the AdS radius. Thus, our solution encodes a new type of emergent quantum near-criticality. We carry out some stability checks for our solutions. We also set up a consistent ansatz for baryonic black 2-branes of M-theory that are asymptotic to AdS_4 x Q^{1,1,1}.
Note:
  • 29 pages, 4 figures/ v2 discussion of entropy revised, minor changes/ v3 note added, minor improvements, version published in JHEP
  • Gauge-gravity correspondence
  • Black Holes in String Theory
  • background: anti-de Sitter
  • potential: chemical
  • black brane
  • gauge field theory
  • conifold
  • temperature: Hawking
  • entropy
  • M-theory