The subleading term of the strong coupling expansion of the heavy-quark potential in a N = 4 super Yang-Mills plasma

2011/04/30 by Zi-qiang Zhang, Defu Hou, Hai-cang Ren +1 · 33 citations
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paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep07(2011)035

published in Journal of High Energy Physics 2011(7) (Springer Nature) · 17 pages in JHEP3, typos fixed, updated version to be published in JHEP

arxiv created 2011/06/21 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/01 · arxiv updated 2015/03/18 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

Applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, the expansion of the heavy-quark potential of the \cal N supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large N_c is carried out to the sub-leading term in the large 't Hooft coupling at nonzero temperatures. The strong coupling corresponds to the semi-classical expansion of the string-sigma model, the gravity dual of the Wilson loop operator, with the sub-leading term expressed in terms of functional determinants of fluctuations. The contributions of these determinants are evaluated numerically.

Citations

• Understanding the strong coupling limit of theN=4supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature
• Matching the circular Wilson loop with dual open string solution at 1-loop in strong coupling
• Energy loss of a heavy quark moving through Script N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
• The subleading term of the strong coupling expansion of the heavy-quark potential in a 𝒩 = 4 super Yang-Mills vacuum
• A course of modern analysis an introduction to the general theory of infinite processes and of analytic functions with an account of the principal transcendental functions
• Functional determinants for radial operators
• Viscosity, Black Holes, and Quantum Field Theory
• The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity
• The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity

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