Thermodynamics of a field theory with infrared fixed point from gauge/gravity duality

Understand

We use gauge/gravity duality to study the thermodynamics of a field theory with asymptotic freedom in the ultraviolet and a fixed point in the infrared.

• We find a high temperature quark-gluon phase and a low T conformal unparticle phase.
• The phase transition between the phases is of first order or continuous, depending on the ratio of the radii of asymptotic AdS5 spaces at T=0 and T=infinity.
• This is a prediction from a model of gauge/gravity duality, not yet verified on the field theory side.