Wilson loops on the Coulomb branch of N=4 super-Yang-Mills
Abstract
We study Wilson loops on the Coulomb branch of N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, by solving for minimal surfaces that connect the contour on the boundary with the D3-brane in the bulk of AdS5 × S5. The circular loop undergoes the Gross-Ooguri transition as a function of the radius and angular separation, and we fully map its phase diagram. As a byproduct we find evidence that the expectation value of the straight line is tree-level exact.
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