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We investigate the behavior of energy momentum tensor correlators in holographic $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills plasma, taking finite coupling corrections into account. In the thermal limit we determine the flow of quasinormal modes as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 Stefan A. Stricker

We calculate the resummed perturbative free energy of ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills in four spacetime dimensions ($\text{SYM}_{4,4}$) through second order in the 't Hooft coupling $\lambda$ at finite temperature and zero chemical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-11-25 Qianqian Du , Michael Strickland , Ubaid Tantary

We investigate the transition between weak and strong coupling in thermal ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills (SYM) theory as a function of 't Hooft coupling $\lambda$ for several quantities of phenomenological interest for which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-22 Berndt Müller

The damping of high momentum excitations in strongly coupled maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma is studied. Previous calculations of the asymptotic behavior of the quasinormal mode spectrum are extended and clarified. We confirm…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 John F. Fuini , Christoph F. Uhlemann , Laurence G. Yaffe

The free energy of the maximally supersymmetric SU(N) gauge theory at temperature T is expected to scale, in the large N limit, as N^2 T^4 times a function of the 't Hooft coupling, f(g_{YM}^2 N). In the strong coupling limit the free…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 Steven S. Gubser , Igor R. Klebanov , Arkady A. Tseytlin

We use gauge theory/string theory correspondence to study the bulk viscosity of strongly coupled, mass deformed SU(N_c) N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma, also known as N=2^* gauge theory. For a wide range of masses we confirm the bulk…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-12 Alex Buchel , Chris Pagnutti

We compute the leading order perturbative correction to the static potential in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. We show that the perturbative expansion contains infrared logarithms which, when resummed, become logarithms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. K. Erickson , G. W. Semenoff , R. J. Szabo , K. Zarembo

Recently is has been shown \cite{Gladden:2024ssb} that strongly coupled ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma with diagonal $U(1)$ $R$-charge chemical potential is unstable at $\frac{\mu}{2\pi T}=\sqrt{2}$. We construct a new…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-14 Alex Buchel

We investigate the thermalization time scale in the planar limit of the SU(N) N=4 SYM plasma at strong yet finite 't Hooft coupling by considering its supergravity dual description, including the full O(alpha'^3) type IIB string theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Walter H. Baron , Martin Schvellinger

We study a special class of observables in $\mathcal N=2$ and $\mathcal N=4$ superconformal Yang-Mills theories which, for an arbitrary 't Hooft coupling constant $\lambda$, admit representation as determinants of certain semi-infinite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-27 Zoltan Bajnok , Bercel Boldis , Gregory P. Korchemsky

The plasma consisting of confining gluons resulting from the Gribov quantization of the SU(3) Yang-Mills theory is studied using non-equilibrium fluid dynamical framework. Exploiting the Bjorken symmetry and using linear response theory a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-23 Wojciech Florkowski , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Nan Su , Konrad Tywoniuk

We study the perturbation expansion of the free energy of N=4 supersymmetric SU(N) Yang-Mills at finite temperature in powers of 't Hooft's coupling g^2 N in the large N limit. Infrared divergences are controlled by constructing a hierarchy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Agustin Nieto , Michel H. G. Tytgat

Applying the AdS/CFT correspondence, the expansion of the heavy-quark potential of the ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at large $N_c$ is carried out to the sub-leading term in the large 't Hooft coupling at zero temperature.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 Shao-xia Chu , Defu Hou , Hai-cang Ren

We study the giant graviton integrated correlator in SU$(N)$ $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills at finite complexified coupling $\tau$. Despite the formidable complexity arising from the heavy nature of the operators considered, the large-$N$…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-23 Augustus Brown , Daniele Dorigoni , Congkao Wen

In this work, holographic approach has been used to analyse the hydrodynamical properties of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills thermal plasma with subleading 't Hooft coupling correction and flavour quarks dual to the AdS Gauss-Bonnet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-13 Rishi Pokhrel , Karma P. Sherpa , Indra K. P. Chettri , Tanay K. Dey

We find a new supersymmetric solution of type IIB supergravity which is holographically dual to the planar limit of the four-dimensional $\mathcal{N}=2^*$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory on $S^4$. We study a probe fundamental string in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-23 Nikolay Bobev , Fridrik Freyr Gautason , Jesse van Muiden

We consider the $\mathcal{N}=2$ quiver gauge theory arising from a $\mathbb{Z}_M$ orbifold of $\mathcal{N}=4$ Super Yang-Mills theory. Over the years, exploiting supersymmetric localization, exact expressions for several observables have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-06 Pieter-Jan De Smet , Alessandro Pini , Paolo Vallarino

The N = 4 super Yang-Mills plasma is studied in the regime of weak coupling. Collective excitations and collisional processes are discussed and compared to those of QCD plasma. The two systems are concluded to be very similar to each other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-10-28 Alina Czajka , Stanislaw Mrowczynski

The interest in the thermodynamics of supersymmetric Yang-Mills started after Maldacena proposed the duality between string theory on AdS backgrounds and the large-N limit of SYM theories. One of the motivations to study the thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-07 Ubaid Tantary , Qianqian Du , Michael Strickland

We present a microscopic calculation of the electric conductivity and net-particle diffusion coefficients for a viscous and resistive ultra-relativistic plasma. Our results might be of interest for several astrophysical and cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-13 Ferdinando Frascà , Andrea Beraudo , Luca Del Zanna