arXiv:hep-lat/0209149·v1·High Energy Physics — Lattice
Electric and Magnetic Fluxes in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
Lorenz von Smekal (1)🇩🇪 · with Philippe de Forcrand (2) ((1) University Erlangen-Nuremberg, (2) ETH Zurich and CERN)🇨🇭
Abstract
We measure the free energies in SU(2) of static fundamental charges and center monopoles. Dual to temporal center fluxes, the former provide a well-defined (dis)order parameter for deconfinement. In contrast, the monopole free energies vanish in the thermodynamic limit at all temperatures and are thus irrelevant for the transition.
Comments: 3 pages, LaTeX2e (espcrc2.sty), 4 figures (epsfig), for Lattice2002(topology)