Phase Transition of Anti-Symmetric Wilson Loops in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM

Abstract

We will argue that the 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the anti-symmetric representations in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory exhibit a phase transition at some critical value of the 't Hooft coupling of order $N^2$. In the matrix model computation of Wilson loop expectation values, this phase transition corresponds to the transition between the one-cut phase and the two-cut phase. It turns out that the one-cut phase is smoothly connected to the small 't Hooft coupling regime and the $1/N$ corrections of Wilson loops in this phase can be systematically computed from the topological recursion in the Gaussian matrix model.

arXiv comment22 pages; v2: added reference; v3: version to appear in JHEP

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