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Man-Man Sun

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Holographic entanglement entropy under external magnetic field from the EMD model

In this work, we explore holographic entanglement entropy in the QCD phase diagram under an external magnetic field using an Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton model. We consider both the specious-confinement and deconfined phases. In the perpendicular magnetic field orientation, the strip length shows three distinct branches, and the entanglement entropy develops a swallow-tail structure, indicating a transition between connected and disconnected entanglement surfaces. For the parallel orientation, the behavior is monotonic and no transition occurs. In addition, the difference in entanglement entropy changes smoothly with temperature at small chemical potential, but becomes multivalued at large chemical potential. Increasing the magnetic field restores single-valued behavior. These results are consistent with the black hole thermodynamics and the QCD phase diagram. Our findings show that entanglement entropy can serve as an effective probe of the QCD phase transition.

hep-th

Gravitational waves from holographic first-order QCD phase transition with magnetic field

In this paper, we investigate the generation of gravitational waves (GWs) from a first-order QCD confinement-deconfinement phase transition under external magnetic field from holography. We analyze the GWs spectra across both hard wall and soft wall models for Jouguet detonations and non-runaway scenarios. Our results indicate that increasing the magnetic field shifts the spectral peak to lower frequencies. The predicted GWs signals are potentially detectable by observatories such as IPTA, SKA, BBO and NANOGrav. Decomposing the spectra reveals that sound waves typically dominate the signal around the peak frequency, bubble collisions prevail at spectral extremities, and the contribution from MHD turbulence is significant only for non-runaway bubble scenarios at high frequencies. This work suggests that magnetized QCD phase transitions are viable cosmological sources for observable GW backgrounds, offering a potential pathway to constrain primordial magnetic fields through future PTA observations.

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