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The Holographic Life of the eta'
In the string holographic dual of large-N_c QCD with N_f flavours of
Kruczenski et al, the eta' meson is massless at infinite N_c and dual to a
collective fluctuation of N_f D6-brane probes in a supergravity background.
Here we identify the string diagrams responsible for the generation of a mass
of order N_f/N_c, consistent with the Witten-Veneziano formula, and show that
the supregravity limit of these diagrams corresponds to mixings with
pseudoscalar glueballs. We argue that the dependence on the theta-angle in the
supergravity description occurs only through the combination theta + 2
\sqrt{N_f} eta' / f_pi, as dictated by the U(1) anomaly. We provide a
quantitative test by computing the linear term in the eta' potential in two
independent ways, with perfect agreement.Comment: 1+26 pages, 8 figures; V4: Appendix added, version published in JHE
Percolation transition and dissipation in quantum Ising magnets
We study the effects of dissipation on a randomly diluted transverse-field
Ising magnet close to the percolation threshold. For weak transverse fields, a
novel percolation quantum phase transition separates a superparamagnetic
cluster phase from an inhomogeneously ordered ferromagnetic phase. The
properties of this transition are dominated by large frozen and slowly
fluctuating percolation clusters. This leads to a discontinuous
magnetization-field curve and exotic hysteresis phenomena as well as highly
singular behavior of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat. We compare our
results to the smeared transition in generic dissipative random quantum Ising
magnets. We also discuss the relation to metallic quantum magnets and other
experimental realizations.Comment: 4 pages, 2 eps figures, final version as publishe
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