Debye screening in strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma

TL;DR

This paper investigates Debye screening in a strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma using AdS/CFT, providing insights into non-Abelian plasma behavior and comparing with thermal QCD results.

Contribution

It applies AdS/CFT correspondence to analyze correlators and Debye screening in strongly coupled supersymmetric plasma, offering new theoretical insights.

Findings

Debye screening length characterized in strongly coupled plasma

Comparison with thermal QCD results highlights similarities and differences

Correlator behavior analyzed at non-zero temperature

Abstract

Using the AdS/CFT correspondence, we examine the behavior of correlators of Polyakov loops and other operators in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory at non-zero temperature. The implications for Debye screening in this strongly coupled non-Abelian plasma, and comparisons with available results for thermal QCD, are discussed.