scholarly journals Casimir scaling and renormalization of Polyakov loops in large-N gauge theories

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Mykkänen ◽  
Marco Panero ◽  
Kari Rummukainen
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Large N ◽  
Polyakov Loops

scholarly journals Quantum information probes of charge fractionalization in large-N gauge theories

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandon S. DiNunno ◽  
Niko Jokela ◽  
Juan F. Pedraza ◽  
Arttu Pönni
Keyword(s):  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Entanglement Entropy ◽  
Coarse Grained ◽  
Strongly Coupled ◽  
Information Theoretic ◽  
Large N ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Charge Fractionalization ◽  
Electric Flux

Abstract We study in detail various information theoretic quantities with the intent of distinguishing between different charged sectors in fractionalized states of large-N gauge theories. For concreteness, we focus on a simple holographic (2 + 1)-dimensional strongly coupled electron fluid whose charged states organize themselves into fractionalized and coherent patterns at sufficiently low temperatures. However, we expect that our results are quite generic and applicable to a wide range of systems, including non-holographic. The probes we consider include the entanglement entropy, mutual information, entanglement of purification and the butterfly velocity. The latter turns out to be particularly useful, given the universal connection between momentum and charge diffusion in the vicinity of a black hole horizon. The RT surfaces used to compute the above quantities, though, are largely insensitive to the electric flux in the bulk. To address this deficiency, we propose a generalized entanglement functional that is motivated through the Iyer-Wald formalism, applied to a gravity theory coupled to a U(1) gauge field. We argue that this functional gives rise to a coarse grained measure of entanglement in the boundary theory which is obtained by tracing over (part) of the fractionalized and cohesive charge degrees of freedom. Based on the above, we construct a candidate for an entropic c-function that accounts for the existence of bulk charges. We explore some of its general properties and their significance, and discuss how it can be used to efficiently account for charged degrees of freedom across different energy scales.

scholarly journals Large-N quantum gauge theories in two dimensions

1993 ◽  
Vol 303 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Rusakov
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Large N

scholarly journals ANTI-DE SITTER SPACE, THERMAL PHASE TRANSITION AND CONFINEMENT IN GAUGE THEORIES

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (16) ◽  
pp. 2747-2769 ◽  
Author(s):  
EDWARD WITTEN
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
De Sitter Space ◽  
Spontaneous Breaking ◽  
De Sitter ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Conformal Field ◽  
Classical Geometry ◽  
Large N ◽  
Quantum Phenomena

The correspondence between supergravity (and string theory) on AdS space and boundary conformal field theory relates the thermodynamics of [Formula: see text] super-Yang–Mills theory in four dimensions to the thermodynamics of Schwarzschild black holes in anti-de Sitter space. In this description, quantum phenomena such as the spontaneous breaking of the center of the gauge group, magnetic confinement and the mass gap are coded in classical geometry. The correspondence makes it manifest that the entropy of a very large AdS Schwarzschild black hole must scale "holographically" with the volume of its horizon. By similar methods, one can also make a speculative proposal for the description of large N gauge theories in four dimensions without supersymmetry.

scholarly journals Large N limit of non-commutative gauge theories

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (09) ◽  
pp. 025-025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan M Maldacena ◽  
Jorge G Russo
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Large N

scholarly journals Single site model of large N gauge theories coupled to adjoint fermions

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajamani Narayanan ◽  
Robert Lohamayer
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Single Site ◽  
Site Model ◽  
Large N

scholarly journals Non-perturbative aspects of Sp(2N) gauge theories

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jack Holligan
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Fine Tuning ◽  
Global Symmetry ◽  
Dirac Fermions ◽  
Open Problems ◽  
Abelian Gauge ◽  
General Behaviour ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Large N ◽  
Glueball Spectrum

Yang-Mills theories based on the symplectic groups – denoted by Sp(2N) – are inter-esting for both theoretical and phenomenological reasons. Sp(2N) theories with two fundamental Dirac fermions give rise to pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone bosons which can be interpreted as a composite Higgs particle. This framework can describe the existing Higgs boson without the need for unnatural fine-tuning. This justifies a programme of wider investigations of Sp(2N) gauge theories aimed at understanding their general behaviour. In this work, we study the glueball mass spectrum for Sp(2N) Yang-Mills theories using the variational method applied to Monte-Carlo generated gauge config-urations. This is carried out both for finite N and in the limit N → ∞. The results are compared to existing results for SU(N) Yang-Mills theories, again, for finite- and large-N. Our glueball analysis is then used to investigate some conjectures related to the behaviour of the spectrum in Yang-Mills theories based on a generic non-Abeliangauge group G. We also find numerical evidence that Sp(2N) groups confine both for finite and large N. As well as studying the glueball spectrum, we examine the quenched-meson spectrum for fermions in the fundamental, antisymmetric and sym-metric representations for N = 2 and N = 3. This study enables us to provide a first account of how the related observables vary with N. The investigations presented in this work contribute to our understanding of the non-perturbative dynamics of Sp(2N) gauge theories in connection with Higgs compositeness and, more in general, with fun-damental open problems in non-Abelian gauge theories such as confinement and global symmetry breaking.

Large-N Gauge Theories

2000 ◽  
pp. 285-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuri Makeenko
Keyword(s):  
Gauge Theories ◽  
Large N
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