Phase transition of anti-symmetric Wilson loops in N = 4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ SYM
Phase transition of anti-symmetric Wilson loops in N = 4 $$ \mathcal{N}=4 $$ SYM
We will argue that the 1/2 BPS Wilson loops in the anti-symmetric representations in the $\mathcal{N}=4$ super Yang-Mills (SYM) theory exhibit a phase transition at some critical value of the 't Hooft coupling of order $N^2$. In the matrix model computation of Wilson loop expectation values, this phase transition corresponds …