Speaker
Mendel Nguyen
Description
Two competing pictures of the confinement mechanism in 3+1D non-abelian gauge theory have been the proliferation of center vortices and the proliferation of magnetic monopoles. In this talk, I will provide a unified and surprising picture of confinement, which clarifies some confusion in the literature concerning the role of vortices. In particular, I will argue that whereas the simultaneous proliferation of vortices and monopoles leads to the gapped confining phase, vortex proliferation without monopole proliferation leads not to confinement but to a gapless Coulomb phase.
| Parallel Session (for talks only) | Vacuum structure and confinement |
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Author
Co-authors
Prof.
Mithat Ünsal
(North Carolina State University)
Prof.
Tin Sulejmanpasic
(Durham University)
