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Using relativistic quantum mechanics, we study the spectrum of a non-BPS two-particle bound state in the massive phase of \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super Yang-Mills, in the limit when one of the particles is infinitely heavier than the other. We find that the spectrum shows the exact n 2 degeneracy for each principal quantum number n, just as in the strict non-relativistic limit. This is in line with the findings of Caron-Huot and Henn, who studied the same system in the large N limit with the technique of integrability and the dual conformal symmetry.
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Sakata, Y., Schneider, R., Tachikawa, Y. et al. On hydrogen-like bound states in \( \mathcal{N} \) = 4 super Yang-Mills. J. High Energ. Phys. 2017, 15 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2017)015
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