Percolation and Deconfinement in SU(2) Gauge Theory

Abstract

We show that deconfinement in SU(2) gauge theory can be described by the percolation of site-bond clusters of like-sign Polyakov loops. In particular, we find that in 2+1 dimensions the percolation variables coincide with those of the 2-dimensional Ising model.

Comments: 3 pages, latex, 2 figures; proceedings of Lattice '99 (Pisa,Italy)