2000/06/07 by Srinath Cheluvaraja, S. Cheluvaraja, Cheluvaraja, S.
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Superconducting Materials and Applications #hep-lat
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/0006011
17 pages latex, 8 figures
arxiv created 2000/06/07 · openalex publication_date 2000/06/07 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate some properties of thick vortices and thick monopoles in the SU(2) lattice gauge theory by inserting operators which create these excitations. Some quantities associated with the dynamical behaviour of thick vortices and thick monopoles are studied. We measure the derivative of the free energy of the vortex with respect to the coupling and we find that it falls exponentially with the cross sectional area of the vortex size. We also study the monopole-monopole potential energy for thick and thin monopoles. Our results suggest that vortices and monopoles of increasing thickness will play an important role in the large β limit.