Exploring confinement by cooling: A study of compact three-dimensional QED

Journal Article · Mon Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1993 · Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.4450· OSTI ID:5927324

Trottier, H D ^[1]; Woloshyn, R M ^[2]

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1. Department of Physics, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6 (Canada)
2. TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6T 2A3 (Canada)

The role of monopoles in the confining behavior of compact lattice three-dimensional QED (QED[sub 3]) is studied using an adiabatic cooling method. Monopole-antimonopole pairs with a large separation survive cooling and presence or absence of such plasma monopoles provides a useful classification of the lattice gauge-field configurations at large [beta]. By calculating observables in subsets of gauge-field configurations which contain or do not contain plasma monopoles it is seen that, in compact QED[sub 3], monopoles dominate the long-distance physics, e.g., the string tension, linear confining potential, and dynamical mass generation. On the other hand, the spin-spin interaction is essentially unaffected by monopoles.

• OSTI ID: 5927324
• Journal Information: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States), Journal Name: Physical Review, D (Particles Fields); (United States) Vol. 48:9; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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CONFINEMENT
COOLING
ELECTRODYNAMICS
FIELD THEORIES
INSTANTONS
LATTICE FIELD THEORY
MONOPOLES
PLASMA
QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
QUASI PARTICLES
THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
WILSON LOOP