Wilson Loops in the Large N Limit at Finite Temperature

Abstract

Using a proposal of Maldacena we compute in the framework of the supergravity description of N coincident D3 branes the energy of a quark anti-quark pair in the large N limit of U(N) N=4 SYM in four dimensions at finite temperature.

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• Figure 5: The energy $E$ of the quark-anti-quark pair as a function of $L$ for a given $T$. The solid line corresponds to the numerical calculation up to $L_C$, the dashed line indicates the expected behavior for large $L$.