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The \( \mathcal{N}={2}^{\ast } \) Super-Yang-Mills theory (SYM*) undergoes an infinite sequence of large-N quantum phase transitions. We compute expectation values of Wilson loops in k-symmetric and antisymmetric representations of the SU(N ) gauge group in this theory and show that the same phenomenon that causes the phase transitions at finite coupling leads to a non-analytic dependence of Wilson loops on k/N when the coupling is strictly infinite, thus making the higher-representation Wilson loops ideal holographic probes of the non-trivial phase structure of SYM*.
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Chen-Lin, X., Zarembo, K. Higher rank Wilson loops in N = 2∗ super-Yang-Mills theory. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 147 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP03(2015)147
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