The Deconfinement Transition in SO(3) Gauge Theory
Abstract
The SO(3) lattice gauge theory with a Villain form of action was investigated by Monte Carlo techniques on asymmetric lattices with Nt = 2 and 4, where Nt is the number of sites in the temporal extent. Unlike the results for higher Nt, only one transition of second order was found for Nt = 2 . An extended action with an irrelevant term to suppress Z_2 monopoles enabled us to get a better view of the deconfinement transition as the effects of bulk transition could be suppressed as well. Although the action has no global Z_2 symmetry for the SO(3) theory, unlike the SU(2) theory at finite temperature, our study revealed a second order deconfinement transition, with properties similar to the deconfinement transition of SU(2).
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@article{arxiv.hep-lat/9901006,
title = {The Deconfinement Transition in SO(3) Gauge Theory},
author = {Saumen Datta and R. V. Gavai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/9901006},
year = {2016}
}
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19 pages latex, incl. figures