# String Breaking from Ladder Diagrams in SYM Theory

Source: [String Breaking from Ladder Diagrams in SYM Theory](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa28fc1e209131ce830201>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-24T12:36:49.765Z

Authors: K. Zarembo

Published: 2001-03-09T23:11:09.000Z

## Abstract

The AdS/CFT correspondence establishes a string representation for Wilson loops in N=4 SYM theory at large N and large 't Hooft coupling. One of the clearest manifestations of the stringy behaviour in Wilson loop correlators is the string-breaking phase transition. It is shown that resummation of planar diagrams without internal vertices predicts the strong-coupling phase transtion in exactly the same setting in which it arises from the string representation.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0103058>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0103058.pdf>)