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Confinement-deconfinement order parameter and Dirac's quantization condition

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v1

Abstract

We describe a monopole-like order parameter for the confinement-deconfinement transition in gauge theories where dynamical charges and monopoles coexist. It has been recently proposed in a collaboration with J. Froehlich. It avoids an inconsistency in the treatment of small scales present in earlier definitions of monopole fields by respecting Dirac's quantization condition for electromagnetic fluxes. An application to SU(2) lattice Yang-Mills theory is outlined, naturally fitting in the 't Hooft scenario for confinement.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0310023,
  title  = {Confinement-deconfinement order parameter and Dirac's quantization condition},
  author = {Pieralberto Marchetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0310023},
  year   = {2014}
}

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LaTeX file, 4 pages. Talk given at QCD 02 (Montpellier 2-9 july 2002)