Strong-Coupling Phases of Planar N=2* Super-Yang-Mills Theory

Understand

The N=2* theory (mass deformation of N=4 Super-Yang-Mills) undergoes an infinite number of quantum phase transitions in the large-N limit.

• The phase structure and critical behavior can be analyzed with the help of supersymmetric localization, which reduces the problem to an effective matrix model.
• We study its strong-coupling phase.