The string tension in the maximally Abelian gauge after smoothing.

DOI10.1016/S0920-5632(99)85129-9zbMATH Open1051.81551arXivhep-lat/9808050OpenAlexW2014801500MaRDI QIDQ5961312FDOQ5961312

Alistair Hart, John D. Stack, Michael Teper

Publication date: 24 April 2002

Published in: Nuclear Physics. B. Proceedings Supplements (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We apply smoothing to SU(2) lattice field configurations in 3+1 dimensions before fixing to the maximally Abelian gauge. The Abelian projected string tension is shown to be stable under this, whilst the monopole string tension declines by O(30%). Blocking of the SU(2) fields reduces this effect, but the use of extended monopole definitions does not. We discuss these results in the context of additional confining excitations in the U(1) vacuum.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9808050

zbMATH Keywords

addititonal confining U(1) vacuum excitationsSU(2) field blockingSU(2) lattice field configurations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Yang-Mills and other gauge theories in quantum field theory (81T13) Quantum field theory on lattices (81T25)

Cited In (2)

• Further studies on the smoothed SU(2) gauge configurations.
• Laplacian Abelian projection: Abelian dominance and monopole dominance

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