Vortex percolation and confinement

1999/05/07 by Kurt Langfeld, Langfeld, Kurt
Physics and Astronomy · #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism #Theoretical and Computational Physics #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9905009

6 pages, 4 PS figures, LaTeX using PSFIG, talk presented at the workshop ''Understanding confinement'', ECT* Trento, March 1 - 13, 1999

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Abstract

The vortex state which arises from a projection of SU(2) to Z₂ gauge theory is studied at finite temperatures with a special emphasis on the deconfinement phase transition.

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