Confinement Artifacts in the U(1) and SU(2) Compact Lattice Gauge Theories

1998/01/13 by Kevin Cahill, Cahill, Kevin, Gary Herling +1
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #hep-lat

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-lat/9801009

15 pages, 5 figures, latex; minor changes

arxiv created 1998/08/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We identify the artifact that causes confinement at strong coupling in compact U(1) lattice gauge theory and show that most of the string tension in compact SU(2) lattice gauge theory is due to plaquettes of negative trace.

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