Center disorder in the 3-D Georgi-Glashow model

Apr, 1998
22 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (1998) 004
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Abstract:
We present a number of arguments relating magnetic disorder to center disorder, in pure Yang-Mills theory in D=3 and D=4 dimensions. In the case of the D=3 Georgi-Glashow model, we point out that the abelian field distribution is not adequatedly represented, at very large scales, by that of a monopole Coulomb gas. The onset of center disorder is associated with the breakdown of the Coulomb gas approximation; this scale is pushed off to infinity in the QED_3 limit of the 3D Georgi-Glashow model, but should approach the color-screening length in the pure Yang-Mills limit.
  • lattice field theory: action
  • gauge field theory: SU(N)
  • dimension: 3
  • dimension: 4
  • Georgi-Glashow model
  • confinement
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • gauge field theory: compact
  • gas: Coulomb
  • color: screening