Center clusters in the Yang-Mills vacuum
High Energy Physics - Lattice
2015-03-17 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Properties of local Polyakov loops for SU(2) and SU(3) lattice gauge theory at finite temperature are analyzed. We show that spatial clusters can be identified where the local Polyakov loops have values close to the same center element. For a suitable definition of these clusters the deconfinement transition can be characterized by the onset of percolation in one of the center sectors. The analysis is repeated for different resolution scales of the lattice and we argue that the center clusters have a continuum limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1011.2329,
title = {Center clusters in the Yang-Mills vacuum},
author = {Christof Gattringer and Alexander Schmidt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2329},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Table added. Final version to appear in JHEP