Color confinement and dual superconductivity of the vacuum. 2.

Jun, 1999
6 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 61 (2000) 034504
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Report number:
  • IFUP-TH-36-99

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Abstract:
The dual superconductivity of the vacuum in SU(3) gauge theory is investigated by constructing a disorder parameter which signals monopole condensation in various abelian projections and by studying numerically on the lattice its behaviour at finite temperature. We find that the vacuum is a dual superconductor with respect to each U(1) of the residual gauge group after abelian projection independently of the abelian projection chosen. Like in the SU(2) case (discussed in a companion paper) a finite size scaling analysis enables us to extract the indices of the phase transition and our analysis is consistent with independent determinations.
  • lattice field theory
  • gauge field theory: SU(3)
  • superconductivity
  • duality
  • vacuum state
  • finite temperature
  • charge: monopole
  • gauge: abelian
  • gauge field theory: U(1)
  • scaling: finite size