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Measurements of the Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional, and related studies

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2011-12-02 v1

Abstract

I present numerical tests of several recent proposals for the Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional in D=2+1 dimensions. In these tests the predicted relative values of the squared wavefunctional, evaluated on a finite set of abelian plane wave and non-abelian constant configurations, are compared to the corresponding values for the true ground state, extracted from Monte Carlo simulations. I also study how the 2+1 dimensional color Coulomb potential, averaged over a set of simple trial configurations, varies with the proximity of those configurations to the Gribov horizon.

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@article{arxiv.1112.0048,
  title  = {Measurements of the Yang-Mills vacuum wavefunctional, and related studies},
  author = {J. Greensite},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.0048},
  year   = {2011}
}

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12 pages, 7 figures. Talk presented at the International Workshop on QCD Green's Functions, Confinement and Phenomenology, 5-9 September 2011, Trento, Italy