2023/04/14 by Faedo, Antón F., Hoyos, Carlos, Subils, Javier G. · 1 citation
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2304.07257
We study the phase diagram of a strongly coupled confining theory in 2+1 dimensions, as a function of temperature and baryon chemical potential. The theory has a fully fledged supergravity holographic dual, that we use to predict a line of first order phase transitions separating a confining phase and a deconfined phase. Both phases exhibit a non-zero baryon density thus providing a first example of baryonic matter in a confining string dual that does not require the introduction of flavor branes. We argue that the confining phase is a baryon superfluid, while the deconfined phase has non-zero baryon magnetization.