Non-Abelian magnetic monopole dominance for SU(3) Wilson loop average

Abstract

We show that the non-Abelian magnetic monopole defined in a gauge-invariant way in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory gives a dominant contribution to confinement of the fundamental quark, in sharp contrast to the SU(2) case.

Comments: 3 pages; Contribution to the proceedings of `Quark Confinement And The Hadron Spectrum IX', Madrid, Spain, 30 Aug - 3 Sep 2010; Figure is modified