Solutions of type IIB supergravity which preserve half of the supersymmetries have a dual description in terms of free fermions, as elucidated by the 'bubbling AdS' construction of Lin, Lunin and Maldacena. In this paper we study the half-BPS geometry associated with a gas of free fermions in thermodynamic equilibrium obeying the Fermi-Dirac distribution. We consider both regimes of low and high temperature. In the former case, we present a detailed computation of the ADM mass of the supergravity solution and find agreement with the thermal energy of the fermions. The solution has a naked null singularity and, by general arguments, is expected to develop a finite area horizon once stringy corrections are included. By introducing a stretched horizon, we propose a way to match the entropy of the fermions with the entropy of the geometry in the low temperature regime. In the opposite limit of high temperature, the solution resembles a dilute gas of D3 branes. Also in this case the ADM mass of the geometry agrees with the thermal energy of the fermions.
Half-BPS geometries and thermodynamics of free fermions / Giombi, Simone; Kulaxizi, Manuela; Ricci, Riccardo; Trancanelli, Diego. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2007:01(2007), pp. 067-067.
Data di pubblicazione: | 2007 | |
Titolo: | Half-BPS geometries and thermodynamics of free fermions | |
Autore/i: | Giombi, Simone; Kulaxizi, Manuela; Ricci, Riccardo; Trancanelli, Diego | |
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI): | http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2007/01/067 | |
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Volume: | 2007 | |
Fascicolo: | 01 | |
Pagina iniziale: | 067 | |
Pagina finale: | 067 | |
Codice identificativo ISI: | WOS:000244120200067 | |
Codice identificativo Scopus: | 2-s2.0-33947625635 | |
Citazione: | Half-BPS geometries and thermodynamics of free fermions / Giombi, Simone; Kulaxizi, Manuela; Ricci, Riccardo; Trancanelli, Diego. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2007:01(2007), pp. 067-067. | |
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