Andreas Schmitt

Advances in the holographic description of hot and dense QCD matter

We review and extend recent progress on QCD-like phases at nonzero temperature and chemical potentials within the gauge-gravity duality. We focus on the Witten-Sakai-Sugimoto model, a top-down approach based on string theory which allows for a unified treatment of mesons, baryons and quarks. Phases such as pion condens...