Color confinement and dual superconductivity of the vacuum. I

1999/06/30 by A. Di Giacomo, Biagio Lucini, B. Lucini +4 · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Black Holes and Theoretical Physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-lat #hep-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.61.034503

published as Phys.Rev.D61:034503,2000 · Some typos corrected, acknowledgements added; to appear on Phys. Rev. D

arxiv created 1999/09/30 · openalex publication_date 2000/01/11 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We study the dual superconductivity of the ground state of SU(2) gauge theory in connection with confinement. We do this measuring on the lattice a disorder parameter describing condensation of monopoles. Confinement appears as a transition to the dual superconductor, independent of the Abelian projection defining monopoles. Some speculation is made on the existence of a more appropriate disorder parameter. A similar study for SU(3) is presented in a companion paper.

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