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We study the effect of magnetic field B on the critical temperature T c of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition in hard-wall AdS/QCD, and holographic duals of flavored and unflavored \( \mathcal{N}=4 \) super-Yang Mills theories on \( {\mathbb{R}}^3\times {\mathrm{S}}^1 \). For all of the holographic models, we find that T c (B) decreases with increasing magnetic field B ≪ T 2, consistent with the inverse magnetic catalysis recently observed in lattice QCD for B ≲ 1 GeV2. We also predict that, for large magnetic field B ≫ T 2, the critical temperature T c (B), eventually, starts to increase with increasing magnetic field B ≫ T 2 and asymptotes to a constant value.
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Mamo, K.A. Inverse magnetic catalysis in holographic models of QCD. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 121 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2015)121
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