Deconfinement Phase Transition in N=4 Super Yang-Mills Theory on RxS{sup 3} from Supersymmetric Matrix Quantum Mechanics
- Department of Physics, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043 (Japan)
- Center for Quantum Spacetime (CQUeST), Sogang University, Seoul 121-742 (Korea, Republic of)
- High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0801 (Japan)
- Department of Physics, Shizuoka University, 836 Ohya, Suruga-ku, Shizuoka 422-8529 (Japan)
We test the recent claim that supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics with mass deformation preserving maximal supersymmetry can be used to study N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on RxS{sup 3} in the planar limit. When the mass parameter is large, we can integrate out all of the massive fluctuations around a particular classical solution, which corresponds to RxS{sup 3}. The resulting effective theory for the gauge field moduli at finite temperature reproduces the deconfinement phase transition in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory on RxS{sup 3} at weak coupling. This transition was speculated to be a continuation of the conjectured phase transition at strong coupling, which corresponds to the Hawking-Page transition based on the gauge-gravity duality. At strong coupling, one can study the target theory by the new simulation method for supersymmetric matrix quantum mechanics.
- OSTI ID:
- 21180293
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 102, Issue 11; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111601; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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