Seminar on Theory of hadronic matter under extreme conditions
Date and Time: Wednesday, 26 September 2018, at 4:00 PM
Venue: Blokhintsev Hall (4th floor), Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics
Seminar topic: “On some solvable non-conformal holographic models for QCD”
Speaker: Giuseppe Policastro (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris)
Abstract:
In recent years the holographic correspondence has been shown to be a very useful tool to get theoretical insight into strongly coupled systems such as the QCD quark/gluon plasma and strongly correlated electrons among others. I will present a class of holographic models that are useful toy models, because they can be studied analytically while having features resembling the real QCD, in particular for the running of the coupling. I will discuss the black hole solutions in these models that are dual to the plasma, and their unusual thermodynamic and transport properties as seen in the collective modes spectrum.