10 research outputs found
String Effects in the Wilson Loop: a high precision numerical test
We test numerically the effective string description of the infrared limit of
lattice gauge theories in the confining regime. We consider the 3d Z(2) lattice
gauge theory, and we define ratios of Wilson loops such that the predictions of
the effective string theory do not contain any adjustable parameters. In this
way we are able to obtain a degree of accuracy high enough to show
unambiguously that the flux--tube fluctuations are described, in the infrared
limit, by an effective bosonic string theory.Comment: 19 pages, LaTeX file + two .eps figure
Generalized quark-antiquark potential at weak and strong coupling
We study a two-parameter family of Wilson loop operators in N=4
supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory which interpolates smoothly between the 1/2
BPS line or circle and a pair of antiparallel lines. These observables capture
a natural generalization of the quark-antiquark potential. We calculate these
loops on the gauge theory side to second order in perturbation theory and in a
semiclassical expansion in string theory to one-loop order. The resulting
determinants are given in integral form and can be evaluated numerically for
general values of the parameters or analytically in a systematic expansion
around the 1/2 BPS configuration. We comment about the feasibility of deriving
all-loop results for these Wilson loops.Comment: 43 pages: 15 comprising the main text and 25 for detailed appendice
The one loop MSbar static potential in the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian
We compute the static potential in the Gribov-Zwanziger Lagrangian as a
function of the Gribov mass, gamma, in the MSbar scheme in the Landau gauge at
one loop. The usual gauge independent one loop perturbative static potential is
recovered in the limit as gamma -> 0. By contrast the Gribov-Zwanziger static
potential contains the term gamma^2/(p^2)^2. However, the linearly rising
potential in coordinate space as a function of the radial variable r does not
emerge due to a compensating behaviour as r -> infty. Though in the short
distance limit a dipole behaviour is present. We also demonstrate enhancement
in the propagator of the bosonic localizing Zwanziger ghost field when the one
loop Gribov gap equation is satisfied. The explicit form of the one loop gap
equation for the Gribov mass parameter is also computed in the MOM scheme and
the zero momentum value of the renormalization group invariant effective
coupling constant is shown to be the same value as that in the MSbar scheme.Comment: 54 latex pages, 6 figures, flaw in original Feynman rules corrected
with updated two loop gap equation; new details added on derivation of
propagators and their one loop corrections as well as bosonic ghost
enhancemen
Integrable Wilson loops
The generalized quark-antiquark potential of N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills
theory on S^3 x R calculates the potential between a pair of heavy charged
particles separated by an arbitrary angle on S^3 and also an angle in flavor
space. It can be calculated by a Wilson loop following a prescribed path and
couplings, or after a conformal transformation, by a cusped Wilson loop in flat
space, hence also generalizing the usual concept of the cusp anomalous
dimension. In AdS_5 x S^5 this is calculated by an infinite open string. I
present here an open spin-chain model which calculates the spectrum of
excitations of such open strings. In the dual gauge theory these are cusped
Wilson loops with extra operator insertions at the cusp. The boundaries of the
spin-chain introduce a non-trivial reflection phase and break the bulk symmetry
down to a single copy of psu(2|2). The dependence on the two angles is captured
by the two embeddings of this algebra into \psu(2|2)^2, i.e., by a global
rotation. The exact answer to this problem is conjectured to be given by
solutions to a set of twisted boundary thermodynamic Bethe ansatz integral
equations. In particular the generalized quark-antiquark potential or cusp
anomalous dimension is recovered by calculating the ground state energy of the
minimal length spin-chain, with no sites. It gets contributions only from
virtual particles reflecting off the boundaries. I reproduce from this
calculation some known weak coupling perturtbative results.Comment: 40 pages, 11 figures; v2-some formulas corrected, results unchange