A maximally supersymmetric Kondo model

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/29/19/194005zbMATH Open1254.83046arXiv1110.5325OpenAlexW1975459707WikidataQ64038455 ScholiaQ64038455MaRDI QIDQ4648231FDOQ4648231

Authors: Gonzalo Torroba, Sarah M. Harrison, Shamit Kachru 

Publication date: 8 November 2012

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the maximally supersymmetric Kondo model obtained by adding a fermionic impurity to N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. While the original Kondo problem describes a defect interacting with a free Fermi liquid of itinerant electrons, here the ambient theory is an interacting CFT, and this introduces qualitatively new features into the system. The model arises in string theory by considering the intersection of a stack of M D5-branes with a stack of N D3-branes, at a point in the D3 worldvolume. We analyze the theory holographically, and propose a dictionary between the Kondo problem and antisymmetric Wilson loops in N=4 SYM. We perform an explicit calculation of the D5 fluctuations in the D3 geometry and determine the spectrum of defect operators. This establishes the stability of the Kondo fixed point together with its basic thermodynamic properties. Known supergravity solutions for Wilson loops allow us to go beyond the probe approximation: the D5s disappear and are replaced by three-form flux piercing a new topologically non-trivial three-sphere in the corrected geometry. This describes the Kondo model in terms of a geometric transition. A dual matrix model reflects the basic properties of the corrected gravity solution in its eigenvalue distribution.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.5325

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zbMATH Keywords

supergravitysupersymmetric Yang-Mills theoryWilson loopsD5-branessupersymmetric Kondo model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special connections and metrics on vector bundles (Hermite-Einstein, Yang-Mills) (53C07) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in mechanics of particles and systems (70S15) Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Exact solutions to problems in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C15) String and superstring theories in gravitational theory (83E30)

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