Determining the phase structure of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its Equation of
State (EOS) at densities and temperatures realized inside neutron stars and their mergers is
a long-standing open problem. The holographic V-QCD framework provides a model for the
EOS of dense and hot QCD, which describes the deconfinement phase transition between a
dense baryonic and a quark matter phase. We use this model in fully general relativistic
hydrodynamic (GRHD) simulations to study the formation of quark matter and the emitted …