The infrared Yang-Mills wave functional due to percolating center vortices
Abstract
Inspired by the center-vortex dominance in the infrared sector of Yang-Mills theory observed on the lattice, we propose a vacuum wave functional localized on an ensemble of correlated center vortices endowed with stiffness and magnetic monopoles that change the orientation of the vortex flux. In the electric-field representation, this wave functional becomes an effective partition function for N complex scalar fields. The inclusion of both oriented and non-oriented vortices as well as so-called N-vortex matchings leads to an effective potential that has only a center symmetry left. In the center-vortex condensed phase, this symmetry is spontaneously broken. In this case, the Wilson loop average can be approximated by a solitonic saddle-point localized around the minimal surface. The asymptotic string tension thus obtained displays Casimir scaling.
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@article{arxiv.2211.03006,
title = {The infrared Yang-Mills wave functional due to percolating center vortices},
author = {D. R. Junior and L. E. Oxman and H. Reinhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.03006},
year = {2023}
}