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Percolation and Critical Behaviour in SU(2) Gauge Theory

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

The paramagnetic-ferromagnetic transition in the Ising model can be described as percolation of suitably defined clusters. We have tried to extend such picture to the confinement-deconfinement transition of SU(2) pure gauge theory, which is in the same universality class of the Ising model. The cluster definition is derived by approximating SU(2) by means of Ising-like effective theories. The geometrical transition of such clusters turns out to describe successfully the thermal counterpart for two different lattice regularizations of (3+1)-d SU(2).

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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0010026,
  title  = {Percolation and Critical Behaviour in SU(2) Gauge Theory},
  author = {S. Fortunato and F. Karsch and P. Petreczky and H. Satz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0010026},
  year   = {2009}
}

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Lattice 2000 (Finite Temperature), 4 pages, 4 figures, 2 tables