Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2010-05-17
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
37 pages, 13 figures; minor comments added, to appear in JHEP
Scientific paper
We investigate N=4 SYM coupled to fundamental flavours at nonzero imaginary quark chemical potential in the strong coupling and large N limit, using gauge/gravity duality applied to the D3-D7 system, treating flavours in the probe approximation. The interplay between Z(N) symmetry and the imaginary chemical potential yields a series of first-order Roberge-Weiss transitions. An additional thermal transition separates phases where quarks are bound/unbound into mesons. This results in a set of Roberge-Weiss endpoints: we establish that these are triple points, determine the Roberge-Weiss temperature, give the curvature of the phase boundaries and confirm that the theory is analytic in mu^2 when mu^2~0.
Aarts Gert
Kumar Sreenivasa P.
Rafferty James
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