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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…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Nadav Drukker

We calculate the anomalous dimension of the cusped Wilson loop in ${\cal N}=4$ supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory to order $\lambda^2$ ($\lambda=g^2_{YM}N$). We show that the cancellation between the diagrams with the three-point vertex and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yuri Makeenko , Poul Olesen , Gordon W. Semenoff

We study defect CFT within the framework of holographic duality, emphasizing the impact of corner contributions. We model distinct conformal defects using interface branes that differ in tensions and are connected by a corner. Employing the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-06 Xinyu Sun , Shao-Kai Jian

Real critical systems, such as uniaxial ferromagnets in the 3d Ising universality class, are constrained by boundaries and subject to random couplings. We consider the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $4-\epsilon$ dimensions subject to a random…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-22 António Antunes , Apratim Kaviraj , Baishali Roy

We present the complete formula for the cusp anomalous dimension at four loops in QCD and in maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills. In the latter theory it is given by \begin{equation} {\Gamma}^{\rm}_{\rm cusp}\Big|_{\alpha_s^4} = -\left(…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-25 Johannes M. Henn , Gregory P. Korchemsky , Bernhard Mistlberger

Anomalous dimensions of Wilson operators with large Lorentz spin scale logarithmically with the spin. Recent multi-loop QCD calculations of twist-two anomalous dimensions revealed the existence of interesting structure of the subleading…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 B. Basso , G. P. Korchemsky

Inequalities are derived for Wilson loops generalizing the well-known Bachas inequality for rectangular contours. The inequalities are compatible with the area law for large contours. The Polyakov cusp anomalous dimension of Wilson lines…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 P. V. Pobylitsa

We study the first sub-leading correction $O((\ln s)^0)$ to the cusp anomalous dimension in the high spin expansion of finite twist operators in ${\cal N}=4$ SYM theory. Since this approximation is still governed by a linear integral…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 Davide Fioravanti , Paolo Grinza , Marco Rossi

We study the integrability properties of Wilson loops in the ${\cal N}=6$ three-dimensional Chern-Simons-matter (ABJM) theory. We begin with the construction of an open spin chain that describes the anomalous dimensions of operators…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-17 Diego H. Correa , Victor I. Giraldo-Rivera , Martín Lagares

We review the computation of the anomalous dimension of twist operators in the planar limit of N=4 SYM using the asymptotic Bethe ansatz and demonstrate how this quantity is obtained at weak, strong and intermediate values of the coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Lisa Freyhult

This work addresses the resurgent properties of the cusp anomalous dimension's strong coupling expansion, obtained from the integral Beisert-Eden-Staudacher (BES) equation. This expansion is factorially divergent, and its first…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-02-17 Inês Aniceto

We derive a set of integral equations of the TBA type for the generalized cusp anomalous dimension, or the quark antiquark potential on the three sphere, as a function of the angles. We do this by considering a family of local operators on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Diego Correa , Juan Maldacena , Amit Sever

We study the low-energy limit of Wilson lines (charged impurities) in conformal gauge theories in 2+1 and 3+1 dimensions. As a function of the representation of the Wilson line, certain defect operators can become marginal, leading to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-26 Ofer Aharony , Gabriel Cuomo , Zohar Komargodski , Márk Mezei , Avia Raviv-Moshe

We study the infrared structure of the Standard Model (SM) restricted to the first generation of fermions, including the full SM gauge group, up to three-loop order, and determine the resulting cusp and collinear anomalous dimensions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-01-28 Michael Stadlbauer , Tobias Theil

We study the velocity-dependent cusp anomalous dimension in supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. In a paper by Correa, Maldacena, Sever, and one of the present authors, a scaling limit was identified in which the ladder diagrams are dominant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 J. M. Henn , T. Huber

We propose a new entry within the dictionary of the AdS/CFT duality at strong coupling: in the limit of a large spin or a large R-charge, the anomalous dimension of the gauge theory operator dual to a semiclassical rotating string is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Nelson R. F. Braga , Edmond Iancu

On-shell amplitude methods have proven to be extremely efficient for calculating anomalous dimensions. We further elaborate on these methods to show that, by the use of an angular momentum decomposition, the one-loop anomalous dimensions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-24 Pietro Baratella , Clara Fernandez , Benedict von Harling , Alex Pomarol

The interface between domains of opposite magnetization in the 3D Ising model near the critical temperature displays universal finite-size effects which can be described in terms of a gaussian model of capillary waves. It turns out that…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Caselle , F. Gliozzi , S. Vinti

We study the self-energy of a gravitating point particle in AdS$_3$, and compare to operator dimensions in CFT$_2$. In particular, we compute the one and two loop diagram contributions to the expectation value of an open Wilson line in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-23 Mert Besken , Ashwin Hegde , Per Kraus

We consider high spin operators. We give a general argument for the logarithmic scaling of their anomalous dimensions which is based on the symmetries of the problem. By an analytic continuation we can also see the origin of the double…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis F. Alday , Juan Maldacena