scholarly journals Towards the Finite Temperature Gluon Propagator in Landau Gauge Yang-Mills Theory

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Maas
Keyword(s):  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Yang Mills

scholarly journals INFRARED-SUPPRESSED GLUON PROPAGATOR IN 4D YANG–MILLS THEORY IN A LANDAU-LIKE GAUGE

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (32) ◽  
pp. 2429-2438 ◽  
Author(s):  
ATTILIO CUCCHIERI ◽  
AXEL MAAS ◽  
TEREZA MENDES
Keyword(s):  
Finite Volume ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Coulomb Gauge ◽  
Dimensional Case ◽  
Gauge Parameter ◽  
Reflection Positivity ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Transverse Gluon

The infrared behavior of the gluon propagator is directly related to confinement in QCD. Indeed, the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario of confinement predicts an infrared vanishing (transverse) gluon propagator in Landau-like gauges, implying violation of reflection positivity and gluon confinement. Finite-volume effects make it very difficult to observe (in the minimal Landau gauge) an infrared suppressed gluon propagator in lattice simulations of the four-dimensional case. Here we report results for the SU(2) gluon propagator in a gauge that interpolates between the minimal Landau gauge (for gauge parameter λ equal to 1) and the minimal Coulomb gauge (corresponding to λ = 0). For small values of λ we find that the spatially-transverse gluon propagator D tr (0, |p|), considered as a function of the spatial momenta |p|, is clearly infrared suppressed. This result is in agreement with the Gribov–Zwanziger scenario and with previous numerical results in the minimal Coulomb gauge. We also discuss the nature of the limit λ→0 (complete Coulomb gauge) and its relation to the standard Coulomb gauge (λ = 0). Our findings are corroborated by similar results in the three-dimensional case, where the infrared suppression is observed for all considered values of λ.

scholarly journals GLUONS AT FINITE TEMPERATURE IN LANDAU GAUGE YANG–MILLS THEORY

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (24) ◽  
pp. 1797-1811 ◽  
Author(s):  
AXEL MAAS
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
High Temperature Phase ◽  
Temperature Phase ◽  
Soft Scale ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Infrared Behavior ◽  
The One

The infrared behavior of Yang–Mills theory at finite temperature provides access to the role of confinement. In this review recent results on this topic from lattice calculations and especially Dyson–Schwinger studies are discussed. These indicate persistence of a residual confinement even in the high-temperature phase. The confinement mechanism is very similar to the one in the vacuum for the chromomagnetic sector. In the chromoelectric sector screening occurs at the soft scale g2T, although not leading to a perturbative behavior.

scholarly journals Finite temperature gluon propagator in Landau gauge: non-zero Matsubara frequencies and spectral densities

2018 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 07038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo J. Silva ◽  
Orlando Oliveira ◽  
David Dudal ◽  
Martin Roelfs
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Density ◽  
Finite Temperature ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Discrepancy Principle ◽  
Spectral Densities ◽  
Tikhonov Regularisation ◽  
Morozov Discrepancy Principle ◽  
Lattice Computation

We report on the lattice computation of the Landau gauge gluon propagator at finite temperature, including the non-zero Matsubara frequencies. Moreover, the corresponding Källén-Lehmann spectral density is computed, using a Tikhonov regularisation together with the Morozov discrepancy principle. Implications for gluon confinement are also discussed.

scholarly journals Reflection positivity and complex analysis of the Yang–Mills theory from a viewpoint of gluon confinement

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kei-Ichi Kondo ◽  
Masaki Watanabe ◽  
Yui Hayashi ◽  
Ryutaro Matsudo ◽  
Yutaro Suda
Keyword(s):  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Gluon Propagator ◽  
Complex Structure ◽  
Landau Gauge ◽  
Complex Conjugate ◽  
Reflection Positivity ◽  
Scalar Model ◽  
Physical Point ◽  
Yang Mills ◽  
Euclidean Region

Abstract In order to understand the confining decoupling solution of the Yang–Mills theory in the Landau gauge, we consider the massive Yang–Mills model which is defined by just adding a gluon mass term to the Yang–Mills theory with the Lorentz-covariant gauge fixing term and the associated Faddeev–Popov ghost term. First of all, we show that massive Yang–Mills model is obtained as a gauge-fixed version of the gauge-invariantly extended theory which is identified with the gauge-scalar model with a single fixed-modulus scalar field in the fundamental representation of the gauge group. This equivalence is obtained through the gauge-independent description of the Brout–Englert–Higgs mechanism proposed recently by one of the authors. Then, we reconfirm that the Euclidean gluon and ghost propagators in the Landau gauge obtained by numerical simulations on the lattice are reproduced with good accuracy from the massive Yang–Mills model by taking into account one-loop quantum corrections. Moreover, we demonstrate in a numerical way that the Schwinger function calculated from the gluon propagator in the Euclidean region exhibits violation of the reflection positivity at the physical point of the parameters. In addition, we perform the analytic continuation of the gluon propagator from the Euclidean region to the complex momentum plane towards the Minkowski region. We give an analytical proof that the reflection positivity is violated for any choice of the parameters in the massive Yang–Mills model, due to the existence of a pair of complex conjugate poles and the negativity of the spectral function for the gluon propagator to one-loop order. The complex structure of the propagator enables us to explain why the gluon propagator in the Euclidean region is well described by the Gribov–Stingl form. We try to understand these results in light of the Fradkin–Shenker continuity between confinement-like and Higgs-like regions in a single confinement phase in the complementary gauge-scalar model.

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