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We examine the gluon propagator in the Laplacian gauge in quenched lattice QCD as a function of the number of colours. We observe a weak dependence on $N_c$ over the whole momentum range. This implies an almost $N_c$-independent gluon pole…
In Landau gauge QCD the infrared behavior of the propagator of transverse gluons can be analytically determined to be a power law from Dyson-Schwinger equations. This propagator clearly shows positivity violation, indicating the absence of…
We review recent work on the effects of quark loops on the gluon propagator in the Landau gauge, relying mainly on the Schwinger-Dyson equations that describe the two-point sector of QCD. Particularly important in this context is the…
The non-perturbative gluon and ghost propagators in Landau gauge QCD are obtained using the Schwinger-Dyson equation approach. The propagator equations are solved in Euclidean space using Landau gauge with a range of vertex inputs.…
In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the vacuum structures are taken to be formed by nonperturbative interactions between gluons. The contributions of gluonic interactions can be parametrized by gluon condensates and especially the dimension-2…
By using the method of center projection the center vortex part of the gauge field is isolated and its propagator is evaluated in the center Landau gauge, which minimizes the open 3-dimensional Dirac volumes of non-trivial center links…
We investigate the role of centre vortices in dynamical mass generation using overlap fermions. The exact chiral symmetry that the overlap fermion action possesses yields a distinctive response to the underlying topology of the gauge field,…
The implementation of the linear covariant gauge on the lattice faces a conceptual problem: using the standard compact discretization, the gluon field is bounded, while the four-divergence of the gluon field satisfies a Gaussian…
Center vortices are unambiguously identified after Laplacian Center Gauge fixing and their influence on confinement and chiral symmetry breaking is investigated on a sample of SU(2) configurations at zero and finite temperature.
It is a long-standing question whether the confinement of matter fields in QCD has an imprint in the (gauge-dependent) correlation functions, especially the propagators. As the analytic structure plays an important role in this question,…
The lattice three-gluon vertex in the Landau gauge is revisited using a large physical volume $\sim(8\textrm{fm})^4$ and a large statistical ensemble. The improved calculation explores the symmetries of the hypercubic lattice to reduce the…
The transverse and longitudinal gluon propagators in the Landau gauge are studied in the two-color lattice QCD at nonzero quark chemical potential $\mu_q$. Parameterization of the momentum dependence of the propagators is provided for all…
This is the first of a series of two papers on the perturbative computation of the ghost and gluon propagators in SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory. Our final aim is to eventually compare with results from lattice simulations in order to enlight…
There is strong evidence supporting center vortices as underpinning confinement and dynamical chiral symmetry breaking -- the two key features of nonperturbative QCD. In our recent letter [ arXiv:2305.18690 ] we find that dynamical mass…
We give an update on our lattice determination of r_0 LambdaMS for different Nf. Our calculations employ the strong coupling constant in the minimal MOM scheme for QCD in Landau gauge, and we report here on our progress towards a…
As a first step towards machine identification of confining objects in thermalized lattice gauge configurations, we present our 2dVoId model for center vortex identification on pure SU(2) lattices in $D = 2$ dimensions. We create a training…
We show that the application of a novel gauge invariant truncation scheme to the Schwinger-Dyson equations of QCD leads, in the Landau gauge, to an infrared finite gluon propagator and a divergent ghost propagator, in qualitative agreement…
The use of lattice tensor representations is explored to investigate the lattice Landau gauge gluon propagator for the pure SU(3) Yang-Mills gauge theory in 4D. The analysis of several tensor bases allows to quantify the completeness of the…
We study the SU(3) gluon propagator in renormalizable $R_\xi$ gauges implemented on a symmetric lattice with a total volume of (3.25 fm)$^4$ for values of the guage fixing parameter up to $\xi=0.5$. As expected, the longitudinal gluon…
The running coupling constant can be estimated by computing gluon two- and three-point Green functions from the lattice. Computing in lattice implies working in a fixed gauge sector (Landau). An source of systematic uncertainty is then the…