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Towards a Holographic Model of the QCD Phase Diagram
We describe the temperature-chemical potential phase diagrams of holographic
models of a range of strongly coupled gauge theories that display chiral
symmetry breaking/restoration transitions. The models are based on the
D3/probe-D7 system but with a phenomenologically chosen running
coupling/dilaton profile. We realize chiral phase transitions with either
temperature or density that are first or second order by changing the dilaton
profile. Although the models are only caricatures of QCD they show that
holographic models can capture many aspects of the QCD phase diagram and hint
at the dependence on the running coupling.Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures, v2: minor corrections, Invited contribution to
an AdS/CFT edition of Journal of Physics