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can only be incorporated indirectly from the background metric,
see also [51]. Therefore, contrary to real QCD, the backreaction of
the chiral condensate on the quark-antiquark free energy and vice
versa will be completely ignored in the holographic model (2.1).
This is a major disadvantage of all probe-approximated AdS/QCD
models, like eq. (2.1), where no explicit interplay between the chi-
ral
condensate and Polyakov loop exists. A more accurate and real-
istic
holographic QCD model, that incorporates the backreaction of
the chiral field on the spacetime geometry from the start, would—
although
very interesting—be extremely challenging to construct
analytically. We are thus working with a kind of holographic ana-
logue
of the quenched QCD approximation known from lattice QCD
(no dynamical quarks). As such, one might question how to even
couple the magnetic field to the theory if there are no dynamical
charge carriers. Here, we follow the pragmatic approach of e.g. [88,
89],
in itself magnetic field-dependent generalizations of the sem-
inal
works [90,91], and we thus consider our engineered boundary
model capable of mimicking some essential QCD features, after
which it can be used to describe, without further input, other QCD-
ish
properties. Notice that Einstein-Maxwell-dilaton models have
been used throughout literature as an effective way to describe
QCD in presence of electromagnetic background fields, as it is evi-
dent
from our extensive reference list.
By
varying the action (2.1)one can derive the equations of mo-
tion
for Einstein, Maxwell and dilaton fields. Since, in this work we
are mostly interested in a magnetised black brane solution with
running dilaton, we consider the following Ansätze for the metric
g
MN
, field strength tensor F
(i)MN
and dilaton field φ,
ds
2
=
L
2
S(z)
z
2
−
g(z)dt
2
+
dz
2
g(z)
+
dy
2
1
+e
B
2
z
2
dy
2
2
+dy
2
3
,
φ = φ(
z), A
(1)M
= A
t
(z)δ
t
M
, F
(2)MN
= Bd y
2
∧dy
3
, (2.2)
where S(z) is the scale factor, L is the AdS length scale and g(z)
is the blackening function. z is the usual holographic radial coordi-
nate,
and in our coordinate system it runs from z = 0(asymptotic
boundary) to z = z
h
(horizon radius), or to z =∞for thermal AdS
(without horizon). We introduced a background magnetic field B
in
the y
1
-direction. Because of this background magnetic field, the
system no longer enjoys the SO(3) invariance in boundary spatial
coordinates (y
1
, y
2
, y
3
), and we precisely chose the metric An-
sätze
such that as soon as we switch off the magnetic field the
SO(3) invariance is recovered.
Using
the Ansätze of eq. (2.2)we get four Einstein equations of
motion,
g
(z) + g
(z)
2B
2
z +
3S
(z)
2S(z)
−
3
z
−
z
2
f
1
(z) A
t
(z)
2
L
2
S(z)
=
0 . (2.3)
B
2
ze
−2B
2
z
2
f
2
(z)
L
2
S(z)
+
2B
2
g
(z)
+
g(z)
4B
4
z +
3B
2
S
(z)
S(z)
−
4B
2
z
=
0 . (2.4)
S
(z) −
3S
(z)
2
2S(z)
+
2S
(z)
z
+ S(z)
4B
4
z
2
3
+
4B
2
3
+
1
3
φ
(z)
2
=
0 . (2.5)
g
(z)
3g(z)
+
S
(z)
S(z)
+
S
(z)
7B
2
z
2S(z)
+
3g
(z)
2g(z)S(z)
−
6
zS(z)
+
g
(z)
5B
2
z
3g(z)
−
3
zg(z)
+
2B
4
z
2
+
B
2
z
2
e
−2B
2
z
2
f
2
(z)
6L
2
g(z)S(z)
−
6B
2
+
2L
2
S(z)V (z)
3z
2
g(z)
+
S
(z)
2
2S(z)
2
+
8
z
2
= 0 . (2.6)
Similarly we get the following equation of motion for the dilaton
field,
φ
(z) + φ
(z)
2B
2
z +
g
(z)
g(z)
+
3S
(z)
2S(z)
−
3
z
+
z
2
A
t
(z)
2
2L
2
g(z)S(z)
∂
f
1
(φ)
∂φ
−
B
2
z
2
e
−2B
2
z
2
2L
2
g(z)S(z)
∂
f
2
(φ)
∂φ
−
L
2
S(z)
z
2
g(z)
∂
V (φ)
∂φ
=
0 , (2.7)
and the equation of motion for the first gauge field,
A
t
(z) + A
t
(z)
2B
2
z +
f
1
(z)
f
1
(z)
+
S
(z)
2S(z)
−
1
z
=
0 . (2.8)
One can explicitly check that the equation of motion for the second
Maxwell field is trivially satisfied and hence it will not give any
additional equation. Therefore, we have in total six equations of
motion. However, only five of them independent. Below we will
choose the dilaton equation (2.7)as a constrained equation and
consider the rest of the equations as independent. In order to solve
the latter, we impose the following boundary conditions,
g(0) = 1andg(z
h
) = 0,
A
t
(0) = μ and A
t
(z
h
) = 0,
S(0) = 1,
φ(
0) = 0 , (2.9)
where μ is the chemical potential of the boundary theory which is
related to the near boundary expansion of the zeroth component
of the first gauge field and, as mentioned before, z
h
is the location
of the black hole horizon. Apart from these boundary conditions,
we will also assume that the dilaton field φ remains real every-
where
in the bulk. As we will see later, this condition will severely
restrict our analytic solution for a finite magnetic field.
In
order to solve eqs. (2.3), (2.4), (2.5), (2.6) and (2.8)simulta-
neously,
we adopt the following strategy.
1. We
first solve eq. (2.8)and obtain the solution for A
t
(z) in
terms of f
1
(z) and S(z).
2. Using
A
t
(z), we then solve eq. (2.3) and find the solution for
g(z) in terms of f
1
(z) and S(z).
3. Using
g(z), we then solve eq. (2.4)to obtain f
2
(z).
4. Next,
we solve eq. (2.5)and find φ
(z) in terms of S(z).
5. Finally,
we solve eq. (2.6) and obtain the dilaton potential in
terms of S(z) and g(z).
Applying
the above strategy and solving eq. (2.8), we get the fol-
lowing
solution for A
t
A
t
(z) = K
1
z
0
dξ
ξ
e
−B
2
ξ
2
f
1
(ξ)
√
S(ξ )
+
K
2
. (2.10)
Applying the boundary condition (eq. (2.9)), we get
K
2
=μ, K
1
=−
μ
z
h
0
dξ
ξe
−B
2
ξ
2
f
1
(ξ )
√
S(ξ )
, (2.11)