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In this letter we consider models with N U(1) gauge fields together with N Kalb-Ramond fields in the large N limit. These models can be solved explicitely and exhibit confinement for a large class of bare actions. The confining phase is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 U. Ellwanger , N. Wschebor

Quantum information theory and strongly correlated electron systems share a common theme of macroscopic quantum entanglement. In both topological error correction codes and theories of quantum materials (spin liquid, heavy fermion and…

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Considered is 4-dimensional ${\cal N}=1$ supersymmetric $SU(N_c)$ QCD (SQCD) with $1\leq N_F\leq N_c-1$ equal mass quark flavors in the fundamental representation. The gauge invariant order parameter $\rho$ is introduced distinguishing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-14 Victor L. Chernyak

Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) are typically trained using finite-length Gibbs chains under a fixed sampling temperature. This practice implicitly assumes that the stochastic regime remains valid as the energy landscape evolves during…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Görkem Can Süleymanoğlu

In this talk we want to discuss the color confinement criterion which guarantees confinement of all colored particles including dynamical quarks and gluons. The most well-known criterion is the Kugo-Ojima color confinement criterion derived…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-14 Kei-Ichi Kondo , Naoki Fukushima

All colored particles including dynamical quarks and gluons are confined if the color confinement criterion proposed by Kugo and Ojima is satisfied. The criterion was obtained under the gauge fixing of the Lorenz type. However, it was…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-25 Kei-Ichi Kondo , Naoki Fukushima

We outline the steps in a derivation of the statement that the SU(2) gauge theory is in a confining phase for all values of the coupling, $0 < \beta <\infty$, defined at lattice spacing a. The approach employed is to obtain both upper and…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-10 E. T. Tomboulis

Motivated by the recent shocking results from RHIC and LHC that show quark-gluon plasma signatures in small systems, we study a simple model of a massless, noninteracting scalar field confined with Dirichlet boundary conditions. We use this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-06 Sylvain Mogliacci , Isobel Kolbé , W. A. Horowitz

The Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) is the simplest physical model reflecting effect of quenched disorder on the different types of phase transitions in solids. The presence of multiple energy minima in the RFIM is an important feature…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Likhachev

The real-time dynamics of topological defects and turbulent configurations of gauge fields for electric and magnetic confinement are studied numerically within a 2+1D Abelian Higgs model. It is shown that confinement is appearing in such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Thomas Gasenzer , Larry McLerran , Jan M. Pawlowski , Dénes Sexty

We investigate the effects of disorder within the T=0 Brinkman-Rice (BR) scenario for the Mott metal-insulator transition (MIT) in two dimensions (2d). For sufficiently weak disorder the transition retains the Mott character, as signaled by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-06-09 E. C. Andrade , E. Miranda , V. Dobrosavljevic

Confinement describes the phenomenon when the attraction between two particles grows with their distance, most prominently found in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) between quarks. In condensed matter physics, confinement can appear in quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-06-15 Joseph Vovrosh , Johannes Knolle

We discuss the conditions under which Higgs and confining regimes in gauge theories with fundamental representation matter fields can be sharply distinguished. It is widely believed that these regimes are smoothly connected unless they are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-30 Aleksey Cherman , Theodore Jacobson , Srimoyee Sen , Laurence G. Yaffe

We examine the magnetic correlations in quantum spin models that were derived recently as effective low-energy theories for electronic correlation effects on the edge states of graphene nanoribbons. For this purpose, we employ quantum Monte…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Cornelie Koop , Stefan Wessel

We study the three-dimensional (3D) compact U(1) lattice gauge theory coupled with $N$-flavor Higgs fields by means of the Monte Carlo simulations. This model is relevant to multi-component superconductors, antiferromagnetic spin systems in…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-10-26 T. Ono , S. Doi , Y. Hori , I. Ichinose , T. Matsui

The antiferromagnetic quantum Ising chain has a quantum critical point which belongs to the universality class of the transverse Ising model (TIM). When a longitudinal field ($h$) is switched on, the phase transition is preserved, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Péter Lajkó , Ferenc Iglói

We study the expectation value of the logarithm of the partition function of large binary-to-binary lattice-gas Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) within a replica-symmetric ansatz, averaging over the disorder represented by the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-01-25 David C. Hoyle

We study lattice cutoff effects on the confinement-deconfinement transition and the $Z_3$ symmetry in $SU(3)$-Higgs theory in $3+1$ dimensions. The Higgs in this study is a complex triplet with vanishing bare mass and quartic coupling. The…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2023-09-14 Sanatan Digal , Vinod Mamale , Sabiar Shaikh

Confinement is an intriguing phenomenon prevalent in condensed matter and high-energy physics. Exploring its effect on the far-from-equilibrium criticality of quantum many-body systems is of great interest both from a fundamental and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-20 Jesse Osborne , Ian P. McCulloch , Jad C. Halimeh

We use computer simulations to investigate the extended phase diagram of a supercooled liquid linearly coupled to a quenched reference configuration. An extensive finite-size scaling analysis demonstrates the existence of a random-field…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-29 Benjamin Guiselin , Ludovic Berthier , Gilles Tarjus