English

The ordered phase of charged N=4 SYM plasma

High Energy Physics - Theory 2025-01-14 v2

Abstract

Recently is has been shown \cite{Gladden:2024ssb} that strongly coupled N=4{\cal N}=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma with diagonal U(1)U(1) RR-charge chemical potential is unstable at μ2πT=2\frac{\mu}{2\pi T}=\sqrt{2}. We construct a new homogeneous and isotropic phase of this plasma that dominates in the microcanonical ensemble (but not in the grand canonical one). The new phase extends to arbitrary high temperatures, \ie as TμT\gg \mu, and is characterized by an expectation value of a dimension-2 operator, with O2T2{\cal O}_2\propto T^2 -- it is the {\it ordered conformal phase}. In the limit μT0\frac\mu T\to 0, this ordered phase has vanishing energy density ET4μ2T2\frac{{\cal E}}{T^4}\propto \frac{\mu^2}{T^2} and is a low entropy density state ST3μ2T2\frac{{\cal S}}{T^3}\propto \frac{\mu^2}{T^2}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.2501.01856,
  title  = {The ordered phase of charged N=4 SYM plasma},
  author = {Alex Buchel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.01856},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

17 pages, 6 figures; v2: ref added, typoes fixed

R2 v1 2026-06-28T20:55:32.165Z