2014/08/27 by Koji Hashimoto, Shunichiro Kinoshita, Keiju Murata +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Condensation #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories #Deconfinement #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Meson #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Physics #Quantum chromodynamics #Quantum electrodynamics #Quark #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.str-el #gr-qc #hep-ph #hep-th #nucl-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2015.05.004
5 pages, 5 figures
arxiv created 2014/08/27 · openalex publication_date 2015/05/06 · arxiv updated 2015/06/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In a QCD-like strongly coupled gauge theory at large Nc, using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we find that heavy quark deconfinement is accompanied by a coherent condensation of higher meson resonances. This is revealed in non-equilibrium deconfinement transitions triggered by static, as well as quenched electric fields even below the Schwinger limit. There, we observe a “turbulent” energy flow to higher meson modes, which finally results in the quark deconfinement. Our observation is consistent with seeing deconfinement as a condensation of long QCD strings.