Testing the Yang-Mills vacuum wave functional Ansatz in 3+1 dimensions

Abstract

We proposed a simple Ansatz for the vacuum wave functional (VWF) of SU(2) gauge theory in temporal gauge. In 2+1 dimensions, the Ansatz was shown to be a fairly good approximation to the true VWF of the theory. Relative probabilities of various test configurations in the vacuum can be computed in numerical simulations of lattice-regulated SU(2) gauge theory by the method proposed long ago by Greensite and Iwasaki. We report promising (albeit still preliminary) results of testing the proposed VWF in 3+1 dimensions on various sets of lattice gauge field configurations.

Comments: 8 pages, 5 EPS figures, uses PoS.cls; talk presented by S. Olejnik at the conference "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum X", Munich, Germany, Oct. 8-12, 2012; matches published version