Phase Transition Due to Vortex Condensation and the Problem of Quark Confinement

Jan, 1981
56 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 24 (1981) 1630
Report number:
  • KEK-TH 21

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Abstract: (APS)
We study the phase transition of the Abelian Higgs model with many magnetic vortices, which turns out to give the Marshall-Ramond model of relativistic strings with the aid of the dual transformation technique. We show that the vortex condensation appears as a stable phase in the strong-coupling region. The relation between the dielectric permeability and the order parameter of the phase transition exhibits the antiscreening of electric charges in the vortex-condensed medium. We also demonstrate that the potential between two opposite charges is linearly rising, unless the distance between them exceeds a critical length where the two charges are liberated.
  • GAUGE FIELD THEORY
  • MODEL: HIGGS
  • QUARK: CONFINEMENT
  • FIELD THEORY: VORTEX
  • VORTEX: CONDENSATION
  • FIELD THEORY: CRITICAL PHENOMENA
  • MODEL: STRING
  • DUALITY
  • MODEL: STRONG COUPLING
  • STRONG COUPLING: MODEL
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