Interpreting Quantum Chromodynamics from Spin Glass- and Polymer Analogies
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2010-02-11 v3 Statistical Mechanics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
Abstract
In an informal way some kind of Ising Lattice QCD is introduced which allows to interprete and discuss the well-known theory of quantum chromodynamics (confinement, quarks and gluons, etc.) from simple phenomena of magnetism and polymer physics. Also the viewpoint of duality is stressed. Moreover, the non-abelian character of the Lie group SU(3) is important. The essential arguments for confinement and asymptotic freedom are given at the very end of the manuscript, after an appendix.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1002.1478,
title = {Interpreting Quantum Chromodynamics from Spin Glass- and Polymer Analogies},
author = {U. Krey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.1478},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
6 pages; 0 figures, the main arguments are given at the end of an appendix