We propose a novel method for extracting non-singlet (NS) fragmentation functions (FFs) of light charged hadrons from charge asymmetries measured in hadron fragmentation using data from both single-inclusive electron-positron annihilation and semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering processes. We determine the NS FFs for pions and kaons at next-to-next-to-leading order in Quantum Chromodynamics through a comprehensive uncertainty analysis. The extracted FFs reveal a scaling index of approximately 0.7 at large momentum fractions and low energy scales, a strangeness suppression factor of approximately 0.5, and universality in fragmentation of light mesons. Our findings establish a valuable benchmark for testing non-perturbative QCD models and Monte Carlo event generators, and serve as crucial inputs for future electron-ion colliders.

China

Jun Gao

Chong-Yang Liu

Bin Zhou

Determination of fragmentation functions from charge asymmetries in hadron production * The work of Jun Gao is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (12275173), the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (2024AIZD007) and open fund of Key Laboratory of Atomic and Subatomic Structure and Quantum Control (Ministry of Education)

We investigated the effect of an isospin chemical potential ( $ \mu_{I} $ ) within the quark-meson model, which approximates quantum chromodynamics (QCD) by modeling low-energy phenomena such as chiral symmetry breaking and phase structure under varying conditions of temperature and chemical potential. Using the functional renormalization group (FRG) flow equations, we calculated the phase diagram in the chiral limit within the two-flavor quark-meson model in a finite $ \mu_{I} $ with $\textit{ρ}$ vector meson interactions. Fluctuation effects significantly decrease the critical chemical potential from the mean-field (MF) value $\mu_{I,{\rm MF}} \gt m_\rho$ to a lower value at which the $\textit{ρ}$ vector meson condensates alongside the chiral condensate once the isospin chemical potential exceeds the critical value $ \mu_{I}^{{\rm{crit}}} $ . This $\textit{ρ}$ condensation was investigated numerically for different meson coupling strengths. The $\textit{ρ}$ meson dominated region is delineated from other phases by a second-order phase transition at lower $ \mu_{I} $ and a first-order transition at slightly higher $ \mu_{I} $ .

Mohammed Osman

Defu Hou

Wentao Wang

United States

Hui Zhang

Functional renormalization group study of $\textit{ρ}$ meson condensate at a finite isospin chemical potential in the quark meson model * Supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFA1604900). This work is also partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (12435009, 12275104). Hui Zhang acknowledges the financial support from the Guangdong Major Project of Basic and Applied Basic Research (2020B0301030008) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (12047523, 12105107)

The holographic heavy quark potential is investigated via holographic Wilson loops in the AdS soliton with gauge potential. We analyze two types of holographic Wilson loops. In the first type, holographic heavy quark potential shows the area law behavior. In the second type, the potential becomes zero at a critical length and physics analogous to the dissociation occurs. The mass of heavy quarkonia and the binding energy are examined. Lastly, the mass of 0 glueball-like operators dual to massless dilaton is calculated. The mass of 0 glueball-like operator decreases with increase of the gauge potential as expected in [hep-th]. The results are comparable with lattice QCD.

Bing Chen

Italy

Xun Chen

Mitsutoshi Fujita

Jun Zhang

The influence of Wilson lines on heavy quark anti-quark potential and mass

In the framework of the holographic principle, focusing on a central concept, conditional mutual information, we construct a class of coarse-grained states, which are intuitively connected to a family of thread configurations. These coarse-grained states characterize the entanglement structure of holographic systems at a coarse-grained level. Importantly, these coarse-grained states can be used to further reveal nontrivial requirements for the holographic entanglement structure. Specifically, we employ these coarse-grained states to probe the entanglement entropies of disconnected regions and the entanglement wedge cross section dual to the inherent correlation in a bipartite mixed state. The investigations demonstrate the necessity of perfect tensor state entanglement. Moreover, in a certain sense, our work establishes the equivalence between the holographic entanglement of purification and the holographic balanced partial entropy. We also construct a thread configuration with the multiscale entanglement renormalization ansatz (MERA) structure, reexamining the connection between the MERA structure and kinematic space.

Yi-Yu Lin

Holographic coarse-grained states and the necessity of perfect entanglement

How the spacetime evolved non-perturbatively in a landscape with multiple anti-de Sitter (AdS) vacua, which is theoretically well-motivated, has always been a matter of concern. As a step towards this issue, we perform (3+1)D numerical relativity simulations for the inhomogeneous universe in an AdS landscape, and find that large inhomogeneity of scalar field can develop into not only sphere-like bubbles, but also novel tube-like structures. It is observed that the bubble or tube wall (across the potential barrier) likely inflates as a quasi-dS space, while the different regions separated by the walls are in different AdS vacua and will collapse towards singularity.

Pu-Xin Lin

Hai-Long Huang

Yun-Song Piao

On primordial universe in anti-de Sitter landscape

In this paper, we make use of holographic Boundary Conformal Field Theory (BCFT) to simulate the black hole information problem in the semi-classical picture. We investigate the correlation between a portion of Hawking radiation and entanglement islands by the area of an entanglement wedge cross-section. Building on the understanding of the relationship between entanglement wedge cross-sections and perfect tensor entanglement as discussed in reference [18], we make an intriguing observation: in the semi-classical picture, the positioning of an entanglement island automatically yields a pattern of perfect tensor entanglement. Furthermore, the contribution of this perfect tensor entanglement, combined with the bipartite entanglement contribution, precisely determines the area of the entanglement wedge cross-section.

Jie-Chen Jin

Entanglement islands read perfect-tensor entanglement

We compute holographic entanglement entropy (EE) and the renormalized EE in AdS solitons with gauge potential for various dimensions. The renormalized EE is a cutoff-independent universal component of EE. Via Kaluza-Klein compactification of S 1 and considering the low-energy regime, we deduce the (d − 1)-dimensional renormalized EE from the odd-dimensional counterpart. This corresponds to the shrinking circle of AdS solitons, probed at large l. The minimal surface transitions from disk to cylinder dominance as l increases. The quantum phase transition occurs at a critical subregion size, with renormalized EE showing non-monotonic behavior around this size. Across dimensions, massive modes decouple at lower energy, while degrees of freedom with Wilson lines contribute at smaller energy scales.

Germany

Song He

Yuan Sun

Holographic renormalized entanglement and entropic c-function

The existence of ultralight axion (ULA) with mass <math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>26</mn></mrow></msup><mspace width="0.25em"></mspace><mtext>eV</mtext><mo>)</mo></math> is not favored by the CMB observations in the standard ΛCDM model. We show that the inclusion of early dark energy (EDE) will lift the CMB-lockdown on such ULA, and possibly other forms of dark matter beyond cold dark matter. By performing Monte Carlo Markov Chain analysis, it is found that, as opposed to ΛCDM, the AdS-EDE cosmology (with an Anti-de Sitter phase around recombination) now allows the existence of axion with mass <math><msup><mrow><mn>10</mn></mrow><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>26</mn></mrow></msup></math> eV and predicts 6% of the matter in our Universe to be such ULA, which can also help alleviating the <math><msub><mrow><mi>S</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>8</mn></mrow></msub></math> tension in EDE.

Netherlands

Gen Ye

United Kingdom

Alleviating both And tensions: Early dark energy lifts the CMB-lockdown on ultralight axion

In this paper, we analyze the holographic covariant entanglement entropy in the double Wick rotated version of a rotating Banados-Teitelboim-Zanelli black hole (3-dimensional Kerr-AdS solution), where the periodicity of Euclidean time and spatial direction are changed. The dual field theory has negative energy in the Lorentzian signature. The holographic entanglement entropy agrees with its conformal field theory counterpart, which is obtained by a conformal transformation of the correlation functions of twisted operators.

Holographic entanglement entropy of the double Wick rotated BTZ black hole

We study perturbations of massive and massless vector fields on a Schwarzschild black-hole background, including a non-minimal coupling between the vector field and the curvature. The coupling is given by the Horndeski vector-tensor operator, which we show to be unique, also when the field is massive, provided that the vector has a vanishing background value.