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Vortices and confinement in hot and cold D = 2+1 gauge theories
Journal of High Energy Physics, Volume: "0006", Issue: 06, Pages: 040 - 040
Swansea University Author:
Biagio Lucini
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DOI (Published version): 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/06/040
Abstract
We calculate the variation with temperature of the vortex free energy in D=2+1 SU(2) lattice gauge theories. We do so both above and below the deconfining transition at T=Tc. We find that this quantity is zero at all T for large enough volumes. For T<Tc this observation is consistent with the fac...
| Published in: | Journal of High Energy Physics |
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| ISSN: | 1029-8479 |
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2000
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa27968 |
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We calculate the variation with temperature of the vortex free energy in D=2+1 SU(2) lattice gauge theories. We do so both above and below the deconfining transition at T=Tc. We find that this quantity is zero at all T for large enough volumes. For T<Tc this observation is consistent with the fact that the phase is linearly confining; while for T>Tc it is consistent with the conventional expectation of `spatial' linear confinement. In small spatial volumes this quantity is shown to be non-zero. The way it decreases to zero with increasing volume is shown to be controlled by the (spatial) string tension and it has the functional form one would expect if the vortices being studied were responsible for the confinement at low T, and for the `spatial' confinement at large T. We also discuss in detail some of the direct numerical evidence for a non-zero spatial string tension at high T, and we show that the observed linearity of the (spatial) potential extends over distances that are large compared to typical high-T length scales. |
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| College: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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06 |
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040 |
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040 |