Z₂ monopoles in D=2+1 SU(2) lattice gauge theory

DOI10.1088/1126-6708/2000/11/043zbMATH Open0990.81085arXivhep-lat/0010010OpenAlexW2949256624MaRDI QIDQ5961118FDOQ5961118

Authors: Alistair Hart, B. Lucini, Michael Teper, Zsolt Schram 

Publication date: 24 April 2002

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We calculate the Euclidean action of a pair of Z2 monopoles (instantons), as a function of their spatial separation, in D=2+1 SU(2) lattice gauge theory. We do so both above and below the deconfining transition at T=Tc. At high T, and at large separation, we find that the monopole `interaction' grows linearly with distance: the flux between the monopoles forms a flux tube (exactly like a finite portion of a Z2 domain wall) so that the monopoles are linearly confined. At short distances the interaction is well described by a Coulomb interaction with, at most, a very small screening mass, possibly equal to the Debye electric screening mass. At low T the interaction can be described by a simple screened Coulomb (i.e. Yukawa) interaction with a screening mass that can be interpreted as the mass of a `constituent gluon'. None of this is unexpected, but it helps to resolve some apparent controversies in the recent literature.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0010010

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Electromagnetic interaction; quantum electrodynamics (81V10) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

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