Charge transport in magnetized holographic $$ \mathcal{M} $$-QGP

A bstract We investigate DC transport in a top-down construction of thermal QGP-like theories using a holographic $$ \\mathcal{M} $$ M -theoretic background, incorporating quartic curvature corrections. The DC and Hall conductivities are computed from the Dirac-Born-Infeld (DBI) action of the corresponding type-IIA probe D 6 flavor branes via the reality condition method proposed in [1, 2]. We further analyze pair-production contributions in the presence and absence of an external magnetic field and work out regimes where thermal pair production dominates over charge carrier transport. These findings extend earlier AdS/CFT results to non-conformal, higher-derivative settings relevant to thermal QGP-like theories.