The SU(2) Confining Vacuum as a Dual Superconductor

Abstract

We investigate the dual superconductivity hypothesis in pure SU(2) lattice gauge theory. We find evidence of the dual Meissner effect both in the maximally Abelian gauge and without gauge fixing. We also obtain a rather good extimation of the string tension using the value of the London penetration length.

Comments: 4 pages, uuencoded compressed (using GNU's gzip) tar file containing 1 LaTeX2e file, 5 encapsulated Postscript figures, and espcrc2.sty. Contribution to Lattice 95