2008/12/31 by Francesco Bigazzi, Aldo L. Cotrone, Angel Paredes +2 · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Critical exponent #Critical phenomena #Degrees of freedom (physics and chemistry) #Gauge (firearms) #Gauge theory #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Phase transition #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #Quark #Supergravity #Supersymmetry #Theoretical physics #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2009/03/153
published as JHEP 0903:153,2009 · 31 pages + appendices, 13 figures; v2: added comments in sections 3.4 and 4.2, small changes in section 5.2, typos corrected in eq. 6.6, references added
openalex publication_date 2009/03/31 · arxiv created 2009/04/02 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We present a fully backreacted D3-D7 supergravity solution dual to the Klebanov-Strassler cascading gauge theory coupled to a large number of massive dynamical flavors in the Veneziano limit. The mass of the flavors can be larger or smaller than the dynamically generated scale. The solution is always regular at the origin of the radial coordinate and as such it can be suitably employed to explore the rich IR physics of the dual gauge theory. In this paper we focus on the static quark-antiquark potential, the screening of chromoelectric charges induced by the dynamical flavors, the flux tube breaking and the mass spectrum of the first mesonic excitations. Moreover, we discuss the occurrence of quantum phase transitions in the connected part of the static quark-antiquark potential. Depending on the ratio of certain parameters, like the flavor mass, with respect to some critical values, we find a discontinuous (first order) or smooth transition from a Coulomb-like to a linear phase. We evaluate the related critical exponents finding that they take classical mean-field values and argue that this is a universal feature of analogous first order transitions occurring in the static potential for planar gauge theories having a dual supergravity description.