Speaker
David Ward
(National Taiwan University)
Description
Gauge theories with matter fields in the adjoint representation play an important role in the mechanisms of confinement due to an additional unbroken center symmetry. Assessment of the vacuum groundstate are, therefore, of primary interest in calculation of order parameters, monopole mass and center vortices. To this end, we present some results from an ongoing study of the adjoint SU(2) gauge-Higgs theory in $2+1$ and $3+1$ dimensions using a recently developed neural network wavefunction approach to the Variational Montecarlo technique.
Author
David Ward
(National Taiwan University)