The 't Hooft loop from a center-vortex wave functional
High Energy Physics - Theory
2026-04-08 v1
Abstract
Previously, we proposed an infrared vacuum wave functional for Yang-Mills theory peaked at thin center vortices and showed that it yields an area law for the Wilson loop. In this work, we use this wave functional to calculate the spatial 't Hooft loop, for which we find a perimeter law, in accordance with 't Hooft's criterion for confinement.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2604.05950,
title = {The 't Hooft loop from a center-vortex wave functional},
author = {D. R. Junior and L. E. Oxman and H. Reinhardt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.05950},
year = {2026}
}