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Multiply wound Polyakov loops at strong coupling
Sean Hartnoll,
Prem Kumar 
Physical Review D, Volume: 74, Issue: 2, Start page: 11 pages
Swansea University Author:
Prem Kumar
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DOI (Published version): 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.026001
Abstract
We study the expectation value of a Polyakov-Maldacena loop that wraps the thermal circle k times in strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This is achieved by considering probe D3 and D5 brane embeddings in the dual black hole geometry. In contrast to multiply wound spatial Wilson loops, non...
| Published in: | Physical Review D |
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| ISSN: | 1550-7998 1550-2368 |
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2006
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa1561 |
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We study the expectation value of a Polyakov-Maldacena loop that wraps the thermal circle k times in strongly coupled N=4 super Yang-Mills theory. This is achieved by considering probe D3 and D5 brane embeddings in the dual black hole geometry. In contrast to multiply wound spatial Wilson loops, nontrivial dependence on k is captured through D5 branes. We find N^{-2/3} corrections, reminiscent of the scaling behaviour near a Gross-Witten transition. |
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We provided the first computation of high rank Polyakov-Maldacena loops, order parameters of certain Yang-Mills theories at high temperature and strong coupling, using D-branes in Black Hole geometries dual to the gauge theory. This idea triggered much interest in using similar techniques to compute high rank Wilson loops. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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2 |
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11 pages |