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We establish a holographic bottom-up model which covers both the baryonic and quark matter phases in cold and dense QCD. This is obtained by including the baryons using simple approximation schemes in the V-QCD model, which also includes the backreaction of the quark matter to the dynamics of pure Yang-Mills. We examine two approaches for homogeneous baryon matter: baryons as a thin layer of noninteracting matter in the holographic bulk, and baryons with a homogeneous bulk gauge field. We find that the second approach exhibits phenomenologically reasonable features. At zero temperature, the vacuum, baryon, and quark matter phases are separated by strongly first order transitions as the chemical potential varies. The equation of state in the baryonic phase is found to be stiff, i.e., the speed of sound clearly exceeds the value c 2s = 1/3 of conformal plasmas at high baryon densities.
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Ishii, T., Järvinen, M. & Nijs, G. Cool baryon and quark matter in holographic QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 3 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2019)003
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