Heavy Holographic Exotics: Tetraquarks as Efimov States

We provide a holographic description of non-strange multiquark exotics as compact topological molecules by binding heavy-light mesons to a tunneling configuration in D8-D$\bar 8$ that is homotopic to the vacuum state with fixed Chern-Simons number. In the tunneling process, the heavy-light mesons transmute to fermions. Their binding is generic and arises from a trade-off between the dipole attraction induced by the Chern-Simons term and the U(1) fermionic repulsion. In the heavy quark limit, the open-flavor tetraquark exotics $QQ\bar q\bar q$ and $\bar Q\bar Q qq$, emerge as bound Efimov states in a degenerate multiplet $IJ^\pi=(00^+ , 01^+)$ with opposite intrinsic Chern-Simons numbers $\pm \frac 12$. The hidden-flavor tetraquark exotics such as $Q\bar Q q\bar q$, $QQ\bar Q\bar q$ and $QQ\bar Q\bar Q$ as compact topological molecules are unbound. Other exotics are also discussed.Comment: 16 pages, 13 figure

Chiral Random Matrix Model at Finite Chemical Potential: Characteristic Determinant and Edge Universality

We derive an exact formula for the stochastic evolution of the characteristic determinant of a class of deformed Wishart matrices following from a chiral random matrix model of QCD at finite chemical potential. In the WKB approximation, the characteristic determinant describes a sharp droplet of eigenvalues that deforms and expands at large stochastic times. Beyond the WKB limit, the edges of the droplet are fuzzy and described by universal edge functions. At the chiral point, the characteristic determinant in the microscopic limit is universal. Remarkably, the physical chiral condensate at finite chemical potential may be extracted from current and quenched lattice Dirac spectra using the universal edge scaling laws, without having to solve the QCD sign problem.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure

Heavy Hadrons and QCD Instantons

Heavy hadrons are analyzed in a random and dilute gas of instantons. We derive the instanton-induced interactions between heavy and light quarks at next to leading order in the heavy quark mass and in the planar approximation, and discuss their effects on the hadronic spectrum. The role of these interactions in the formation of exotic hadrons is also discussed.Comment: 26 pages, REVTeX, 2 tables, 5 figures, uses FEYNMAN.st

Disorder in the Sachdev-Yee-Kitaev Model

We give qualitative arguments for the mesoscopic nature of the Sachdev-Yee-Kitaev (SYK) model in the holographic regime with $q^2/N\ll 1$ with $N$ Majorana particles coupled by antisymmetric and random interactions of range $q$. Using a stochastic deformation of the SYK model, we show that its characteristic determinant obeys a viscid Burgers equation with a small spectral viscosity in the opposite regime with $q/N=1/2$, in leading order. The stochastic evolution of the SYK model can be mapped onto that of random matrix theory, with universal Airy oscillations at the edges. A spectral hydrodynamical estimate for the relaxation of the collective modes is made.Comment: 7 pages, 1 figur

Critical Scaling at Zero Virtuality in QCD

We show that at the critical point of chiral random matrix models, novel scaling laws for the inverse moments of the eigenvalues are expected. We evaluate explicitly the pertinent microscopic spectral density, and found it in agreement with numerical calculations. We suggest that similar sum rules are of relevance to QCD at the critical temperature, and even above if the transition is amenable to a Landau-Ginzburg description.Comment: 4 pages with 3 eps figures included; small changes, typos correcte

Chiral Disorder and Diffusion of Light Quarks in the QCD Vacuum

We give a pedagogical introduction to the concept that light quarks diffuse in the QCD vacuum following the spontaneous breaking of chiral symmetry. By analogy with disordered electrons in metals, we show that the diffusion constant for light quarks in QCD is D=2F_{\pi}^2/|\la\bar{q}q\to| which is about 0.22 fm. We comment on the correspondence between the diffusive phase and the chiral phase as described by chiral perturbation theory, as well as the cross-over to the ergodic phase as described by random matrix theory. The cross-over is identified with the Thouless energy $E_c=D/\sqrt{V_4}$ which is the inverse diffusion time in an Euclidean four-volume $V_4$.Comment: 9 pages in APPB sty (included). Invited talk by MAN at the Workshop on the Structure of Mesons, Baryons and Nuclei, Cracow, May 26-30, 199