Deconfinement transition as black hole formation by the condensation of QCD strings

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We argue that the deconfinement transition of large-N Yang-Mills theory is the condensation of very long and self-intersecting chromo-electric flux strings (QCD string), which is analogous to the formation of a black hole in string theory.

• We do this by using lattice gauge theory and matrix models.
• As evidence, we derive an analytic formula for the deconfinement temperature in the strong coupling limit and confirm it numerically.
• Dual gravity descriptions interpreted in this manner should make it possible to understand the details of the formation of black holes in terms of fundamental strings.