1996/10/28 by Kurt Langfeld, K. Langfeld, Hugo Reinhardt +6
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-ph #hep-th
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9610213
16 pages, LaTeX, 8 ps-figures included using epsf
arxiv created 1996/10/28 · openalex publication_date 1996/10/28 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Yang-Mills theory is studied in a variant of 't Hooft's maximal Abelian gauge. In this gauge magnetic monopoles arise in the Abelian magnetic field. We show, however, that the full (non-Abelian) magnetic field does not possess any monopoles, but rather strings of magnetic fluxes. We argue that these strings are the relevant infrared degrees of freedom. The properties of the magnetic strings which arise from a dilute instanton gas are investigated for the gauge group SU(2).