Holographic Nuclear Physics

Understand

We analyze the phases of the Sakai-Sugimoto model at finite temperature and baryon chemical potential.

• Baryonic matter is represented either by 4-branes in the 8-branes or by strings stretched from the 8-branes to the horizon.
• We find the explicit configurations and use them to determine the phase diagram and equation of state of the model.
• The 4-brane configuration (nuclear matter) is always preferred to the string configuration (quark matter), and the latter is also unstable to density fluctuations.