Holographic Description of the QCD Phase Diagram and Out of Equilibrium Dynamics

Abstract

Holography provides a powerful tool to model QCD and other strongly coupled gauge dynamics. As examples of its power to compute in novel environments I review some recent results: these include models of the phase structure of QCD at finite temperature and chemical potential; and computation of time dependent processes at strongly coupled phase transitions.

Comments: 11 pages, 8 figures, Presented at the International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, ICFP 2012, 10-16 June 2012 Kolymbari, Crete, Greece