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Non-Abelian Dual Superconductor Picture for Quark Confinement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2011-06-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Lattice High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We give a theoretical framework for defining and extracting non-Abelian magnetic monopoles in a gauge-invariant way in SU(N) Yang-Mills theory to study quark confinement. Then we give numerical evidences that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in this way gives a dominant contribution to confinement of fundamental quarks in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory, which is in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case in which Abelian magnetic monopoles play the dominant role for quark confinement.

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@article{arxiv.1007.2696,
  title  = {Non-Abelian Dual Superconductor Picture for Quark Confinement},
  author = {K. -I. Kondo and A. Shibata and T. Shinohara and S. Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.2696},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 figures (4 ps files); The paper was extensively revised, focusing especially on the lattice part