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On condensation of topological defects and confinement

High Energy Physics - Theory 2014-11-18 v2

Abstract

We study the static quantum potential for a theory of anti-symmetric tensor fields that results from the condensation of topological defects, within the framework of the gauge-invariant but path-dependent variables formalism. Our calculations show that the interaction energy is the sum of a Yukawa and a linear potentials, leading to the confinement of static probe charges.

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@article{arxiv.hep-th/0408115,
  title  = {On condensation of topological defects and confinement},
  author = {Patricio Gaete and Clovis Wotzasek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-th/0408115},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

9 pages, Revtex, no figures. One of us (PG) would like to dedicate this work to the memory of Jian-Jun Yang; a mispelling of a quoted author is corrected