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Black hole effective theory for strongly interacting matter

Matti Järvinen1,2,* and Dorin Weissman1,†

  • *Contact author: matti.jarvinen@apctp.org
  • †Contact author: dorin.weissman@apctp.org
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Phys. Rev. D 111, L021903 – Published 24 January, 2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.111.L021903

Abstract

We establish a new tool for studying strongly coupled matter: an effective theory of black holes in gravity, which maps to a hydrodynamic description of field theories via the gauge-gravity duality. Our approach is inspired by previously known effective theories found in the limit of a high number of dimensions. We argue that the new approach can accurately describe phase transitions in a wide class of theories, such as the Yang-Mills and other nearly critical field theories. As an application to a previously unsolved problem, we analyze the interface between confining and deconfining phases in holographic Yang-Mills theory.

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Phys. Rev. D 111, L021903– Published 24 January, 2025
  • Received 11 July 2024
  • Accepted 18 December 2024
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