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Extracting black hole physics from the lattice. (English) Zbl 1272.83046

Summary: We perform lattice simulations of \(N\) D0-branes at finite temperature in the decoupling limit, namely 16 supercharge SU(\(N\)) Yang-Mills quantum mechanics in the ’t Hooft limit. At low temperature this theory is conjectured to be dual to certain supergravity black holes. We emphasize that the existence of a non-compact moduli space renders the partition function of the quantum mechanical theory divergent, and we perform one loop calculations that demonstrate this explicitly. In consequence we use a scalar mass term to regulate this divergence and argue that the dual black hole thermodynamics may be recovered in the appropriate large \(N\) limit as the regulator is removed. We report on simulations for \(N\) up to 5 including the Pfaffian phase, and \(N\) up to 12 in the phase quenched approximation. Interestingly, in the former case, where we may calculate this potentially difficult phase, we find that it appears to play little role dynamically over the temperature range tested, which is certainly encouraging for future simulations of this theory.

MSC:

83C57 Black holes
83E50 Supergravity
81T30 String and superstring theories; other extended objects (e.g., branes) in quantum field theory
81T25 Quantum field theory on lattices
81T13 Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory
82B30 Statistical thermodynamics
80A10 Classical and relativistic thermodynamics

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