Large Charges on the Wilson Loop in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM: II. Quantum Fluctuations, OPE, and Spectral Curve

Abstract

We continue our study of large charge limits of the defect CFT defined by the half-BPS Wilson loop in planar $\mathcal{N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In this paper, we compute $1/J$ corrections to the correlation function of two heavy insertions of charge $J$ and two light insertions, in the double scaling limit where the charge $J$ and the 't Hooft coupling $\lambda$ are sent to infinity with the ratio $J/\sqrt{\lambda }$ fixed. Holographically, they correspond to quantum fluctuations around a classical string solution with large angular momentum, and can be computed by evaluating Green's functions on the worldsheet. We derive a representation of the Green's functions in terms of a sum over residues in the complexified Fourier space, and show that it gives rise to the conformal block expansion in the heavy-light channel. This allows us to extract the scaling dimensions and structure constants for an infinite tower of non-protected dCFT operators. We also find a close connection between our results and the semi-classical integrability of the string sigma model. The series of poles of the Green's functions in Fourier space corresponds to points on the spectral curve where the so-called quasi-momentum satisfies a quantization condition, and both the scaling dimensions and the structure constants in the heavy-light channel take simple forms when written in terms of the spectral curve. These observations suggest extensions of the results by Gromov, Schafer-Nameki and Vieira on the semiclassical energy of closed strings, and in particular hint at the possibility of determining the structure constants directly from the spectral curve.

77 + 35 pages, 18 figures

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