Using Wilson flow to study the SU(3) deconfinement transition

Abstract

We explore the use of Wilson flow to study the deconfinement transition in SU(3) gauge theory. We use the flowed Polyakov loop as a renormalized order parameter for the transition, and use it to renormalize the Polyakov loop. We also study the flow properties of the electric and magnetic gluon condensates, and demonstrate that the difference of the flowed operators shows rapid change across the transition point.

Comments: 13 pages, 10 figures. Small changes in figures and discussion, results unchanged. Published version