Confinement and the photon propagator in 3D compact QED: a lattice study in Landau gauge at zero and finite temperature

Abstract

On the lattice we study the gauge boson propagator of three dimensional compact QED in Landau gauge at zero and non-zero temperature. The non-perturbative effects are taken into account by the generation of a mass, by an anomalous dimension and by the photon wave function renormalization. All these effects can be attributed to the monopoles: they are absent in the propagator of the singularity-free part of the gauge field. We assess carefully the Gribov copy problem for the propagator and the parameters emerging from the fits.

Comments: 25 pages, 32 figures, RevTeX 4; version in print in Phys. Rev. D; typos and figures 5c and 7c corrected