Magnetic Brane Research Articles

Fundamental Landau levels in a strongly coupled plasma

We use the gauge/gravity correspondence to show that in its context there appear Landau levels when studying the excitations of the fundamental degrees of freedom of a strongly coupled plasma subject to a magnetic field of arbitrary intensity. We work in the phase where mesons are melted by embedding a D7-brane in the 10D uplift that we construct for the 5D background associated with a magnetic brane. By studying the dependence of the lowest quasinormal frequency on both the intensity of the magnetic field and the Landau level, we corroborate that the energy behaves as expected for dissociating Landau levels. The reconstruction of the impact of the magnetic field on the stability of the quasinormal modes allows us to identify inverse magnetic catalysis for intensities of the field below a certain value and magnetic catalysis for those above it.

Surface terms of quintic quasitopological gravity and thermodynamics of quasi-topological magnetic brane coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics

For the the quintic quasitopological action which has no well-defined variational principle, we introduced a surface term that for a spacetime with flat boundaries make the action well-defined. Moreover, we investigated the numerical solutions of the above-mentioned gravity coupled to the nonlinear logarithmic and exponential electrodynamics. It has no horizon and curvature except one conical singularity at r=0 with a deficit angle delta phi . Also we found the counterterm which removes non-logarithmic divergences for the static quintic quasitopological gravity. Using this counterterm one can calculate a finite action and conserved quantities for the quintic quasitopological gravity.

The Stephani Universe, K-Essence and Strings in the 5th Dimension

The Stephani universe is an inhomogeneous alternative to ΛCDM. We show that the exotic fluid driving the Stephani exact solution of Einstein’s equations is an unusual form of k-essence that is linear in “velocity”. Much as the Stephani universe can be embedded into (a section of) flat 5-d Minkowski space-time, we show that the k-essence obtains through dimensional reduction of a 5-d strongly coupled non-linear “electrodynamics” that, in the empty Stephani universe, corresponds to space filling magnetic branes in string/M-theory.

Quantum chaos, pole-skipping and hydrodynamics in a holographic system with chiral anomaly

It is well-known that chiral anomaly can be macroscopically detected through the energy and charge transport, due to the chiral magnetic effect. On the other hand, in a holographic many body system, the chaotic modes might be only associated with the energy conservation. This suggests that, perhaps, one can detect microscopic anomalies through the diagnosis of quantum chaos in such systems. To investigate this idea, we consider a magnetized brane in AdS space time with a Chern-Simons coupling in the bulk. By studying the shock wave geometry in this background, we first compute the corresponding butterfly velocities, in the presence of an external magnetic field B, in μ « T and B « T2 limit. We find that the butterfly propagation in the direction of B has a different velocity than in the opposite direction; the difference is ∆vB = (log(4)−1)∆vsound with ∆vsound being the difference between the velocity of two sound modes propagating in the system. The splitting of butterfly velocities confirms the idea that chiral anomaly can be macroscopically manifested via quantum chaos. We then show that the pole-skipping points of energy density Green’s function of the boundary theory coincide precisely with the chaos points. This might be regarded as the hydrodynamic origin of quantum chaos in an anomalous system. Additionally, by studying the near horizon dynamics of a scalar field on the above background, we find the spectrum of pole-skipping points associated with the two-point function of dual boundary operator. We find that the sum of wavenumbers corresponding to pole-skipping points at a specific Matsubara frequency is a universal quantity, which is independent of the scaling dimension of the dual boundary operator. We then show that this quantity follows from a closed formula and can be regarded as another macroscopic manifestation of the chiral anomaly.

Thermal diffusion and quantum chaos in neutral magnetized plasma

We calculate the thermal diffusion constant $D_T$ and butterfly velocity $v_B$ in neutral magnetized plasma using holographic magnetic brane background. We find the thermal diffusion constant satisfies Blake's bound. The constant in the bound $D_T2\pi T/v_B^2$ is a decreasing function of magnetic field. It approaches one half in the large magnetic field limit. We also find the existence of a special point defined by Lyapunov exponent and butterfly velocity on which pole-skipping phenomenon occurs.

Quasitopological magnetic brane coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics

In this paper, we are eager to construct a new class of (n+1)-dimensional static magnetic brane solutions in quasi-topological gravity coupled to nonlinear electrodynamics such as exponential and logarithmic forms. The solutions of this magnetic brane are horizonless and have no curvature. For \rho near r_{+}, the solution f(\rho) is dependent to the values of parameters q and n and for larger \rho, it depends on the coefficients of Love-Lock and quasi-topological gravities \lambda, \mu and c. The obtained solutions also have a conic singularity at r=0 with a deficit angle that is only dependent to the parameters q, n and \beta. We should remind that the two forms of nonlinear electrodynamics theory have similar behaviors on the obtained solutions. At last, by using the counterterm method, we obtain conserved quantities such as mass and electric charge. The value of the electric charge for this static magnetic brane is obtained zero.

Conductivities of magnetic quark-gluon plasma at strong coupling

In the presence of a strong magnetic field, the quark gluon plasma is magnetized, leading to anisotropic transport coefficients. In this work, we focus on the effect of magnetization on electric conductivity, ignoring the possible contribution from the axial anomaly. We generalize longitudinal and transverse conductivities to finite frequencies. For transverse conductivity, a separation of contribution from fluid velocity is needed. We study the dependence of the conductivities on the magnetic field and frequency using a holographic magnetic brane model. The longitudinal conductivity scales roughly linearly in the magnetic field, while the transverse conductivity is rather insensitive to the magnetic field. Furthermore, we find the conductivities can be significantly enhanced at large frequency. This can possibly extend the lifetime of the magnetic field, which is a key component of the chiral magnetic effect.

Chaos, diffusivity, and spreading of entanglement in magnetic branes, and the strengthening of the internal interaction

We use holographic methods to study several chaotic properties of a super Yang-Mills theory at temperature T in the presence of a background magnetic field of constant strength B. The field theory we work on has a renormalization flow between a fixed point in the ultraviolet and another in the infrared, occurring in such a way that the energy at which the crossover takes place is a monotonically increasing function of the dimensionless ratio ℬ/T2. By considering shock waves in the bulk of the dual gravitational theory, and varying ℬ/T2, we study how several chaos-related properties of the system behave while the theory they live in follows the renormalization flow. In particular, we show that the entanglement and butterfly velocities generically increase in the infrared theory, violating the previously suggested upper bounds but never surpassing the speed of light. We also investigate the recent proposal relating the butterfly velocity with diffusion coefficients. We find that electric diffusion constants respect the lower bound proposed by Blake. All our results seem to consistently indicate that the global effect of the magnetic field is to strengthen the internal interaction of the system.

Modular symmetry and non-Abelian discrete flavor symmetries in string compactification

We study the modular symmetry in magnetized D-brane models on $T^2$. Non-Abelian flavor symmetry $D_4$ in the model with magnetic flux $M=2$ (in a certain unit) is a subgroup of the modular symmetry. We also study the modular symmetry in heterotic orbifold models. The $T^2/Z_4$ orbifold model has the same modular symmetry as the magnetized brane model with $M=2$, and its flavor symmetry $D_4$ is a subgroup of the modular symmetry.

Magnetic brane solutions in Gauss–Bonnet–Maxwell massive gravity

Magnetic branes of Gauss–Bonnet–Maxwell theory in the context of massive gravity is studied in detail. Exact solutions are obtained and their interesting geometrical properties are investigated. It is argued that although these horizonless solutions are free of curvature singularity, they enjoy a cone-like geometry with a conic singularity. In order to investigate the effects of various parameters on the geometry of conic singularity, its corresponding deficit angle is studied. It will be shown that despite the effects of Gauss–Bonnet gravity on the solutions, deficit angle is free of Gauss–Bonnet parameter. On the other hand, the effects of massive gravity, cosmological constant and electrical charge on the deficit angle will be explored. Also, a brief discussion related to possible geometrical phase transition of these topological objects is given.

Magnetic brane of cubic quasi-topological gravity in the presence of Maxwell and Born–Infeld electromagnetic field

The main purpose of the present paper is analyzing magnetic brane solutions of cubic quasi-topological gravity in the presence of a linear electromagnetic Maxwell field and a nonlinear electromagnetic Born–Infeld field. We show that the mentioned magnetic solutions have no curvature singularity and also no horizons, but we observe that there is a conic geometry with a related deficit angle. We obtain the metric function and deficit angle and consider their behavior. We show that the attributes of our solution are dependent on cubic quasi-topological coefficient and the Gauss–Bonnet parameter.

Emergent super-Virasoro on magnetic branes

The low energy limit of the stress tensor, gauge current, and supercurrent two-point correlators are calculated in the background of the supersymmetric magnetic brane solution to gauged five-dimensional supergravity constructed by Almuhairi and Polchinski. The resulting correlators provide evidence for the emergence of an N=2 super-Virasoro algebra of right-movers, in addition to a bosonic Virasoro algebra and a $U(1) \oplus U(1)$-current algebra of left-movers (or the parity transform of left- and right-movers depending on the sign of the magnetic field), in the holographically dual strongly interacting two-dimensional effective field theory of the lowest Landau level.

Quantum billiards with branes on product of Einstein spaces

We consider a gravitational model in dimension D with several forms, l scalar fields and a Lambda-term. We study cosmological-type block-diagonal metrics defined on a product of an 1-dimensional interval and n oriented Einstein spaces. As an electromagnetic composite brane ansatz is adopted and certain restrictions on the branes are imposed the conformally covariant Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation for the model is studied. Under certain restrictions, asymptotic solutions to the WDW equation are found in the limit of the formation of the billiard walls. These solutions reduce the problem to the so-called quantum billiard in (n + l - 1)-dimensional hyperbolic space. Several examples of quantum billiards in the model with electric and magnetic branes, e.g. corresponding to hyperbolic Kac-Moody algebras, are considered. In the case n=2 we find a set of basis asymptotic solutions to the WDW equation and derive asymptotic solutions for the metric in the classical case.

The generating function of amplitudes with N twisted and L untwisted states

We show that the generating function of all correlators with N twisted and L untwisted states, i.e. the Reggeon vertex for magnetized branes on [Formula: see text] can be computed once the correlator of N nonexcited twisted states and the corresponding Green function are known and we give an explicit expression as a functional of these objects.

Magnetic branes in Gauss–Bonnet gravity with nonlinear electrodynamics: correction of magnetic branes in Einstein–Maxwell gravity

In this paper, we are considering two first order corrections to both gravity and gauge sides of the Einstein-Maxwell gravity: Gauss-Bonnet gravity and quadratic Maxwell invariant as corrections. We obtain horizonless magnetic solutions by implying a metric which representing a topological defect. We analyze the geometric properties of the solutions and investigate the effects of both corrections, and find that these solutions may be interpreted as the magnetic branes. We study the singularity condition and find a nonsingular spacetime with a conical geometry. We also investigate the effects of different parameters on deficit angle of spacetime near the origin.

Magnetic brane solutions of Lovelock gravity with nonlinear electrodynamics

In this paper, we consider logarithmic and exponential forms of nonlinear electrodynamics as a source and obtain magnetic brane solutions of the Lovelock gravity. Although these solutions have no curvature singularity and no horizon, they have a conic singularity with a deficit angle. We investigate the effects of nonlinear electrodynamics and the Lovelock gravity on the value of the deficit angle and find that various terms of Lovelock gravity do not affect the deficit angle. Next, we generalize our solutions to spinning cases with maximum rotating parameters in arbitrary dimensions and calculate the conserved quantities of the solutions. Finally, we consider nonlinear electrodynamics as a correction of the Maxwell theory and investigate the properties of the solutions.

Anisotropic shear viscosity of a strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma from magnetic branes

Recent estimates for the electromagnetic fields produced in the early stages of non-central ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions indicate the presence of magnetic fields $B\sim \mathcal{O}(0.1-15\,m_\pi^2)$, where $m_\pi$ is the pion mass. It is then of special interest to study the effects of strong (Abelian) magnetic fields on the transport coefficients of strongly coupled non-Abelian plasmas, such as the quark-gluon plasma formed in heavy ion collisions. In this work we study the anisotropy in the shear viscosity induced by an external magnetic field in a strongly coupled $\mathcal{N} = 4$ SYM plasma. Due to the spatial anisotropy created by the magnetic field, the most general viscosity tensor of a magnetized plasma has 5 shear viscosity coefficients and 2 bulk viscosities. We use the holographic correspondence to evaluate two of the shear viscosities, $\eta_{\perp} \equiv \eta_{xyxy}$ (perpendicular to the magnetic field) and $\eta_{\parallel} \equiv \eta_{xzxz}=\eta_{yzyz}$ (parallel to the field). When $B\neq 0$ the shear viscosity perpendicular to the field saturates the viscosity bound $\eta_{\perp}/s = 1/(4\pi)$ while in the direction parallel to the field the bound is violated since $\eta_{\parallel}/s < 1/(4\pi)$. However, the violation of the bound in the case of strongly coupled SYM is minimal even for the largest value of $B$ that can be reached in heavy ion collisions.

On finiteness of type IIB compactifications: magnetized branes on elliptic Calabi-Yau threefolds

The string landscape satisfies interesting finiteness properties imposed by supersymmetry and string-theoretical consistency conditions. We study N=1 supersymmetric compactifications of Type IIB string theory on smooth elliptically fibered Calabi-Yau threefolds at large volume with magnetized D9-branes and D5-branes. We prove that supersymmetry and tadpole cancellation conditions imply that there is a finite number of such configurations. In particular, we derive an explicitly computable bound on the number of magnetic flux quanta, as well as the number of D5-branes, which is independent of the continuous moduli of the setup. The proof applies if a number of easy to check geometric conditions of the twofold base are met. We show that these geometric conditions are satisfied for the almost Fano twofold bases given by each toric variety associated to a reflexive two-dimensional polytope as well as by the generic del Pezzo surfaces dP_n with n=0,...,8. Physically, this finiteness proof shows that there exist a finite collection of four-dimensional gauge groups and chiral matter spectra in the 4D supergravity theories realized by these compactifications. As a by-product we explicitly construct all generators of the Kaehler cones of dP_n and work out their relation to representation theory.

Quantum billiards in multidimensional models with branes

Gravitational D-dimensional model with l scalar fields and several forms is considered. When cosmological type diagonal metric is chosen, an electromagnetic composite brane ansatz is adopted and certain restrictions on the branes are imposed the conformally covariant Wheeler-DeWitt (WDW) equation for the model is studied. Under certain restrictions asymptotic solutions to WDW equation are found in the limit of the formation of the billiard walls which reduce the problem to the so-called quantum billiard on the (D+ l -2)-dimensional Lobachevsky space. Two examples of quantum billiards are considered. The first one deals with 9-dimensional quantum billiard for D = 11 model with 330 four-forms which mimic space-like M2- and M5-branes of D=11 supergravity. The second one deals with the 9-dimensional quantum billiard for D =10 gravitational model with one scalar field, 210 four-forms and 120 three-forms which mimic space-like D2-, D4-, FS1- and NS5-branes in D = 10 II A supergravity. It is shown that in both examples wave functions vanish in the limit of the formation of the billiard walls (i.e. we get a quantum resolution of the singularity for 11D model) but magnetic branes could not be neglected in calculations of quantum asymptotic solutions while they are irrelevant for classical oscillating behaviour when all 120 electric branes are present.

Magnetic String with a NonlinearU(1)Source

Considering the Einstein gravity in the presence of Born-Infeld type electromagnetic fields, we introduce a class of 4-dimensional static horizonless solutions which produce longitudinal magnetic fields. Although these solutions do not have any curvature singularity and horizon, there exists a conic singularity. We investigate the effects of nonlinear electromagnetic fields on the properties of the solutions and find that the asymptotic behavior of the solutions is adS. Next, we generalize the static metric to the case of rotating solutions and find that the value of the electric charge depends on the rotation parameter. Furthermore, conserved quantities will be calculated through the use of the counterterm method. Finally, we extend four-dimensional magnetic solutions to higher dimensional solutions. We present higher dimensional rotating magnetic branes with maximum rotation parameters and obtain their conserved quantities.