  We study confinement-deconfinement phase transition in a holographic
soft-wall QCD model. By solving the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system
analytically, we obtain the phase structure of the black hole backgrounds. We
then impose probe open strings in such background to investigate the
confinement-deconfinement phase transition from different open string
configurations under various temperatures and chemical potentials. Furthermore,
we study the Wilson loop by calculating the minimal surface of the probing open
string world-sheet and obtain the Cornell potential in confinement phase
analytically.
