We consider the Polyakov loop in finite temperature planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory defined on a spatial S^3 and in representations where the number of boxes in the Young Tableau k scales so that remains finite in the large N limit. We review the argument that, in the deconfined phase of the gauge theory, and for symmetric representations with row Young tableau, there is a quantum phase transition in the expectation value of the Polyakov loop operator which occurs as the size of the representation is increased.

Holographic Heavy Quarks and the Giant Polyakov Loop

GRIGNANI, Gianluca;
2010

Abstract

We consider the Polyakov loop in finite temperature planar N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory defined on a spatial S^3 and in representations where the number of boxes in the Young Tableau k scales so that remains finite in the large N limit. We review the argument that, in the deconfined phase of the gauge theory, and for symmetric representations with row Young tableau, there is a quantum phase transition in the expectation value of the Polyakov loop operator which occurs as the size of the representation is increased.
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