Confinement from merons

2003/06/11 by F. Lenz, J. W. Negele, M. Thies +1 · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat #hep-ph #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.69.074009

published as Phys.Rev.D69:074009,2004 · 4 pages, 2 figures

arxiv created 2003/06/11 · openalex publication_date 2004/04/12 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

It is shown that an effective theory with meron degrees of freedom produces confinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. When the scale is set by the string tension, the action density and topological susceptibility are similar to those arising in lattice QCD. The potential for this effective theory to produce center symmetry in SU(2) is discussed.

Citations

• Instantons in QCD

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