title: Spin chains and string theory.
abstract: Recently, an important test of the anti de Sitter/conformal field theory correspondence has been done using rotating strings with two angular momenta. We show that such a test can be described more generally as the agreement between two actions: one a low energy description of a spin chain appearing in the field theory side, and the other a limit of the string action in AdS5xS5. This gives a map between the mean value of the spin in the boundary theory and the position of the string in the bulk, and shows how a string action can emerge from a gauge theory in the large-N limit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Brandeis University Waltham, Massachusetts 02454, USA. martink@brandeis.edu
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kruczenski