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Peer-reviewedCC BY 4.0Journal of High Energy Physics

Quark anti-quark fusion and walking RG flows

  • Filipp Chernikov1
  • Nikolay Gromov1,2
  • Amit Sever3
  1. 1King’s College London
  2. 2St.Petersburg INP
  3. 3Tel Aviv University
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Abstract

A bstract : We study the fusion of two conjugate conformal line defects on the sphere. We first derive the spectrum at small separation in the planar ladder model, and then obtain an exact finite-coupling description of the fusion of conjugate 1/2-BPS Wilson lines in planar 𝒩 N = 4 SYM using the Quantum Spectral Curve. These results reveal that the spectrum is governed by a universal Fusion Master Equation. Below a critical coupling, the fused defect has two conformal fixed points; at criticality, they collide and move into the complex plane, producing walking RG behaviour. Although individual energy levels then drift with the UV scale and are scheme dependent, the SL(2, ℝ ) Casimir continues to commute with the Hamiltonian below that scale. This organizes the spectrum into conformal families and fixes a universal, scheme-independent density of states. We test our results against perturbation theory and semiclassical string theory.

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@article{chernikov2026quark,
  title = {{Quark anti-quark fusion and walking RG flows}},
  author = {Filipp Chernikov and Nikolay Gromov and Amit Sever},
  journal = {Journal of High Energy Physics},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  doi = {10.1007/jhep10(2026)208},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)208},
  note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Quark anti-quark fusion and walking RG flows
AU  - Filipp Chernikov
AU  - Nikolay Gromov
AU  - Amit Sever
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/10/19
JO  - Journal of High Energy Physics
DO  - 10.1007/jhep10(2026)208
UR  - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP10(2026)208
AB  - A bstract : We study the fusion of two conjugate conformal line defects on the sphere. We first derive the spectrum at small separation in the planar ladder model, and then obtain an exact finite-coupling description of the fusion of conjugate 1/2-BPS Wilson lines in planar 𝒩 N = 4 SYM using the Quantum Spectral Curve. These results reveal that the spectrum is governed by a universal Fusion Master Equation. Below a critical coupling, the fused defect has two conformal fixed points; at criticality, they collide and move into the complex plane, producing walking RG behaviour. Although individual energy levels then drift with the UV scale and are scheme dependent, the SL(2, ℝ ) Casimir continues to commute with the Hamiltonian below that scale. This organizes the spectrum into conformal families and fixes a universal, scheme-independent density of states. We test our results against perturbation theory and semiclassical string theory.
SN  - 1029-8479
ER  -