London relation and fluxoid quantization for monopole currents in U(1) lattice gauge theory
Jul 6, 1992
13 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 47 (1993) 1715-1718
e-Print:
- hep-lat/9206019 [hep-lat]
Report number:
- LSUHEP-1-92
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Abstract:
We explore the analogy between quark confinement and the Meissner effect in superconductors. We measure the response of color-magnetic "supercurrents" from Dirac magnetic monopoles to the presence of a static quark-antiquark pair in four dimensional U(1) lattice gauge theory. Our results indicate that in the confined phase these currents screen the color-electric flux due to the quarks in an electric analogy of the Meisner effect. We show that U(1) lattice guage theory obeys both a dual London equation and an electric fluxoid quantization condition.- gauge field theory: U(1)
- lattice field theory
- quark: confinement
- Meissner effect
- superconductivity
- postulated particle: magnetic monopole
- flux: quantization
- quantization: flux
- numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
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