Towards a holographic model of color-flavor locking phase

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Chen, Heng Yu ^a   Hashimoto, Koji ^b   Matsuura, Shunji ^c  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b RIKEN   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AdS CFT correspondence; Gauge gravity correspondence

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954933480     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2010)104     Document Type: Article

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