Dense Holographic QCD in the Wigner-Seitz Approximation
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چکیده
We investigate dense matter in the context of Sakai and Sugimoto’s holographic model of QCD at zero temperature but finite baryon density in the Wigner-Seitz approximation. In bulk, baryons are treated as instantons on S3×R1 in each Wigner-Seitz cell. At low density, the energy density varies as n 1/3 B while at high density it varies as n 5/3 B . In holographic QCD Skyrmions are instanton holonomies along the conformal direction. The high density phase is identified with a crystal of holographic Skyrmions with restored chiral symmetry at about 4M3 KK/π 5.
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