Thermal properties of a string bit model at large N

DOI10.1007/JHEP10(2017)200MaRDI QIDQ1706653zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Matteo Beccaria

Publication date 27 March 2018

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01801

zbMATH Keywords

1/N expansionmatrix models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

Abstract: We study the finite temperature properties of a recently introduced string bit model designed to capture some features of the emergent string in the tensionless limit. The model consists of a pair of bosonic and fermionic bit operators transforming in the adjoint representation of the color group SU(N). Color confinement is not achieved as a dynamical effect, but instead is enforced by an explicit singlet projection. At large N and finite temperature, the model has a non trivial thermodynamics. In particular, there is a Hagedorn type transition at a finite temperature $T=T_H$ where the string degrees of freedom are liberated and the free energy gets a large contribution $sim{N}^2$ that plays the role of an order parameter. For $T>T_H$, the low temperature phase becomes unstable. In the new phase, the thermodynamically favoured configurations are characterized by a non-trivial gapped density of the SU(N) angles associated with the singlet projection. We present an accurate algorithm for the determination of the density profile at $N=infty$. In particular, we determine the gap endpoint at generic temperature and analytical expansions valid near the Hagedorn transition as well as at high temperature. The leading order corrections are characterized by non-trivial exponents that are determined analytically and compared with explicit numerical calculations.

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