Identifying sea and valence quarks in a magnetically driven catalysis

TL;DR

This paper introduces a holographic method to distinguish sea and valence quarks in magnetic catalysis, comparing results with lattice techniques and highlighting the dominant role of sea quarks in condensate behavior.

Contribution

A novel holographic prescription to separately analyze sea and valence quarks in gauge/gravity duality, applied to magnetic catalysis phenomena.

Findings

Sea quarks primarily drive the condensate behavior.

Valence quarks show minimal variation in the studied context.

Results align with previous lattice studies.

Abstract

In the present work we introduce a holographic prescription to independently describe sea and valence quarks in the context of the gauge/gravity correspondence. We use such prescription to perform an initial calculation that permits us to compare our results with those obtained through lattice techniques when studding magnetic catalysis and its inverse. We find, in agreement with previous studies, that the elaborated behavior of the condensate is mostly attributable to the sea quarks, rather than the valence which show a quite featureless participation.