Structure of the electric flux in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

Correlators of Wilson loop operators with O4=Tr(Fμν2+⋯) are computed in N=4 super-Yang-Mills theory using the AdS/CFT correspondence. The results are compared with the leading order perturbative computations. As a consequence of conformal invariance, these correlators have identical forms in the weak and strong coupling limits for circular loops. They are essentially different for contours not protected by conformal symmetry.