Elander, DanielFaedo, Antón F.Mateos, David (Mateos Solé)Subils, Javier G.2021-07-072021-07-072020-06-221126-6708https://hdl.handle.net/2445/178823We use top-down holography to study the thermodynamics of a one-parameter family of three-dimensional, strongly coupled Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theories with M-theory duals. For generic values of the parameter, the theories exhibit a mass gap but no confinement, meaning no linear quark-antiquark potential. For two specific values of the parameter they flow to an infrared fixed point or to a confining vacuum, respectively. As in the Klebanov-Strassler solution, on the gravity side the mass gap is generated by the smooth collapse to zero size of a cycle in the internal geometry. We uncover a rich phase diagram with thermal phase transitions of first and second order, a triple point and a critical point.39 p.application/pdfengcc-by (c) Elander, Daniel et al., 2020https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Forats negres (Astronomia)Teoria quànticaGravitacióBlack holes (Astronomy)Quantum theoryGravitationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article7020782021-07-07info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess