Abstract
The thermodynamics of 5D dilaton gravity duals to confining gauge theories is analyzed. We show that they exhibit a first order Hawking-Page type phase transition. In the explicit background of improved holographic QCD of [U. Gursoy and E. Kiritsis, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 032] [U. Gursoy, E. Kiritsis, and F. Nitti, J. High Energy Phys. 02 (2008) 019], we find
T
c
=
235
MeV
. The temperature dependence of various thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure, entropy, and speed of sound is calculated. The results are in agreement with the corresponding lattice data.
T
c
=
235
MeV
. The temperature dependence of various thermodynamic quantities such as the pressure, entropy, and speed of sound is calculated. The results are in agreement with the corresponding lattice data.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 181601 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-4 |
| Journal | Physical Review Letters |
| Volume | 101 |
| Issue number | 18 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2008 |
Bibliographical note
LaTeX, 15 pages, 6 eps figures. Added comments and references; corrected misprint in eq. (3.5). A slightly shorter version of this work will appear in Physical Review LettersKeywords
- hep-th