Debye screening in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

Abstract

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we examine the behavior of correlators of Polyakov loops and other operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at non-zero temperature. The implications for Debye screening in this strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma, and comparisons with available results for thermal QCD, are discussed.

21 pages, 5 figures, significantly expanded discussion of Polyakov loop correlator and static quark-antiquark potential

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