Thermodynamics and phase diagram of anisotropic Chern-Simons deformed gauge theories

A bstract We consider 3+1-dimensional gauge theories at finite temperature and a finite density of charges which couple to a 2+1-dimensional Chern-Simons operator, giving rise to a θ-term with constant spatial gradient of θ. The strong-coupling limit of thermal =4super-Yang-Millstheorywiththiskindof...

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Published in:The journal of high energy physics 2012-10, Vol.2012 (10), Article 12
Main Authors: Gynther, Antti, Rebhan, Anton, Steineder, Dominik
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Coupling
Elementary Particles
Gluons
High energy physics
Phase diagrams
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
Quark-gluon plasma
Quarks
Relativity Theory
String Theory
Thermodynamics
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Summary:A bstract We consider 3+1-dimensional gauge theories at finite temperature and a finite density of charges which couple to a 2+1-dimensional Chern-Simons operator, giving rise to a θ-term with constant spatial gradient of θ. The strong-coupling limit of thermal =4super-Yang-Millstheorywiththiskindofanisotropicdeformationhasbeenusedin the context of the AdS/CFT correspondence as a model for strongly coupled anisotropic quark-gluon plasma. In this paper we work out the thermodynamics and the (nontrivial) phase diagram in the limit of vanishing gauge coupling and compare with the corresponding strong-coupling results.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP10(2012)012