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Vortices versus monopoles in color confinement

High Energy Physics - Lattice 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

We construct the creation operator of a vortex for SU(2) pure gauge theory using the methods developed for monopoles. We interpret its vacuum expectation value as a disorder parameter for the deconfinement phase transition and find that it behaves in the vacuum in a similar way to monopoles. Results are extrapolated to the thermodynamical limit using finite-size scaling.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-lat/0010044,
  title  = {Vortices versus monopoles in color confinement},
  author = {L Del Debbio and A Di Giacomo and B Lucini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-lat/0010044},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Talk presented at Lattice2000 (Topology and Vacuum), 4 pages