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TY - JOUR
T1 - Correlators of circular Wilson loops from holography
AU - Armoni, Adi
AU - Piai, Maurizio
AU - Teimouri, Ali
N1 - © 2013 American Physical Society
PY - 2013/9/23
Y1 - 2013/9/23
N2 - We study the correlators of two circular Wilson loops of different radii at strong coupling. In our setup one Wilson loop is located inside the other. We use holography to calculate the connected two-point function. Both an AdS background and a confining background are considered. As the computation for the confining case cannot be carried out analytically we solve the problem numerically. In the AdS case our results agree with similar holographic calculations. In the case of a confining background we find an asymptotic area law, in agreement with the result of the lattice strong coupling expansion. We also elaborate on the subtle issue of the interplay between connected and disconnected string worldsheets.
AB - We study the correlators of two circular Wilson loops of different radii at strong coupling. In our setup one Wilson loop is located inside the other. We use holography to calculate the connected two-point function. Both an AdS background and a confining background are considered. As the computation for the confining case cannot be carried out analytically we solve the problem numerically. In the AdS case our results agree with similar holographic calculations. In the case of a confining background we find an asymptotic area law, in agreement with the result of the lattice strong coupling expansion. We also elaborate on the subtle issue of the interplay between connected and disconnected string worldsheets.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.066008
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.066008
M3 - Journal article
VL - 88
JO - Physical Review D
JF - Physical Review D
SN - 1550-7998
IS - 6
M1 - 066008
ER -