The Hamiltonian Approach to Yang-Mills (2+1): An Expansion Scheme, String Tension, etc.

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. P. Nair
2010 ◽  
Vol 824 (3) ◽  
pp. 387-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitra Karabali ◽  
V.P. Nair ◽  
Alexandr Yelnikov

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Reinhardt ◽  
G. Burgio ◽  
D. Campagnari ◽  
E. Ebadati ◽  
J. Heffner ◽  
...  

We report on recent results obtained within the Hamiltonian approach to QCD in Coulomb gauge. Furthermore this approach is compared to recent lattice data, which were obtained by an alternative gauge-fixing method and which show an improved agreement with the continuum results. By relating the Gribov confinement scenario to the center vortex picture of confinement, it is shown that the Coulomb string tension is tied to the spatial string tension. For the quark sector, a vacuum wave functional is used which explicitly contains the coupling of the quarks to the transverse gluons and which results in variational equations which are free of ultraviolet divergences. The variational approach is extended to finite temperatures by compactifying a spatial dimension. The effective potential of the Polyakov loop is evaluated from the zero-temperature variational solution. For pure Yang–Mills theory, the deconfinement phase transition is found to be second order for SU(2) and first order for SU(3), in agreement with the lattice results. The corresponding critical temperatures are found to be 275 MeV and 280 MeV, respectively. When quarks are included, the deconfinement transition turns into a crossover. From the dual and chiral quark condensate, one finds pseudocritical temperatures of 198 MeV and 170 MeV, respectively, for the deconfinement and chiral transition.


Universe ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (8) ◽  
pp. 253
Author(s):  
David R. Junior ◽  
Luis E. Oxman ◽  
Gustavo M. Simões

In this review, we discuss the present status of the description of confining flux tubes in SU(N) pure Yang–Mills theory in terms of ensembles of percolating center vortices. This is based on three main pillars: modeling in the continuum the ensemble components detected in the lattice, the derivation of effective field representations, and contrasting the associated properties with Monte Carlo lattice results. The integration of the present knowledge about these points is essential to get closer to a unified physical picture for confinement. Here, we shall emphasize the last advances, which point to the importance of including the non-oriented center-vortex component and non-Abelian degrees of freedom when modeling the center-vortex ensemble measure. These inputs are responsible for the emergence of topological solitons and the possibility of accommodating the asymptotic scaling properties of the confining string tension.


2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (25) ◽  
pp. 3901-3966 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. CASELLE

This review is devoted to a comparison between lattice gauge theories and AdS/CFT results for the nonperturbative behavior of nonsupersymmetric Yang–Mills theories. It is intended for readers who are assumed not to be experts in LGT. For this reason the first part is devoted to a pedagogical introduction to the Lattice regularization of QCD. In the second part we discuss some basic features of the AdS/CFT correspondence and compare the results obtained in the nonsupersymmetric limit with those obtained on the lattice. We discuss in particular the behavior of the string tension and of the glueball spectrum.


2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (33n35) ◽  
pp. 2415-2422 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. P. NAIR

I review the analysis of (2+1)-dimensional Yang-Mills (YM2+1) theory via the use of gauge-invariant matrix variables. The vacuum wavefunction, string tension, the propagator mass for gluons, its relation to the magnetic mass for YM3+1at nonzero temperature and the extension of our analysis to the Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory are discussed. A possible extension to 3 + 1 dimensions is also briefly considered.


2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 12002
Author(s):  
Ryutaro Matsudo ◽  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Akihiro Shibata

We examine how the average of double-winding Wilson loops depends on the number of color N in the SU(N) Yang-Mills theory. In the case where the two loops C1 and C2 are identical, we derive the exact operator relation which relates the doublewinding Wilson loop operator in the fundamental representation to that in the higher dimensional representations depending on N. By taking the average of the relation, we find that the difference-of-areas law for the area law falloff recently claimed for N = 2 is excluded for N ⩾ 3, provided that the string tension obeys the Casimir scaling for the higher representations. In the case where the two loops are distinct, we argue that the area law follows a novel law (N − 3)A1/(N − 1) + A2 with A1 and A2(A1 < A2) being the minimal areas spanned respectively by the loops C1 and C2, which is neither sum-ofareas (A1 + A2) nor difference-of-areas (A2 − A1) law when (N ⩾ 3). Indeed, this behavior can be confirmed in the two-dimensional SU(N) Yang-Mills theory exactly.


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