arXiv:hep-lat/9809113·v1·High Energy Physics — Lattice
Free energy of an SU(2) monopole-antimonopole pair
Ch. Hoelbling🇺🇸 · C. Rebbi🇺🇸 · V. A. Rubakov🇷🇺
Abstract
We induce an external monopole-antimonopole pair in an SU(2) lattice gauge system and measure its free energy as a way to probe the vacuum structure. We discuss the motivation and computational methodology of the investigation and illustrate our preliminary results.
Comments: LATTICE98(confine)