High-temperature limit of the confining phase

Journal Article · Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 1992 · Physical Review Letters; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.1267· OSTI ID:7049032

Polchinski, J ^[1]

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1. Theory Group, Department of Physics, University of Texas, Austin, Texas 78712 (United States)

The deconfining transition in non-Abelian gauge theory is known to occur by a condensation of Wilson lines. By expanding around an appropriate Wilson-line background, it is possible at large {ital N} to analytically continue the confining phase to arbitrarily high temperatures, reaching a weak-coupling confinement regime. This is used to study the high-temperature partition function of an SU({ital N}) electric flux tube. It is found that the partition function corresponds to that of a string theory with a number of world-sheet fields that diverges at short distance.

• OSTI ID: 7049032
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 68:9; ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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