26 July 2026 to 1 August 2026
University of Maryland, College Park
US/Eastern timezone

Emergence of magnetic monopoles due to violation of the non-Abelian Bianchi identity

29 Jul 2026, 10:20
20m
Thurgood Marshall (Adele H. Stamp Student Union)

Thurgood Marshall

Adele H. Stamp Student Union

3972 Campus Dr, College Park, MD 20742
Contributed talk Vacuum structure and confinement Vacuum structure and confinement

Speaker

Akihiro Shibata (KEK)

Description

The dual superconductor picture is a promising mechanism for quark confinement, and magnetic monopoles play a dominant role in quark confinement. To understand the mechanism of quark confinement, we investigate the relation between the violation of the non-Abelian Bianchi identity (VNABI), the emergence of magnetic monopoles, and confinement by using the gauge-covariant decomposition and the non-Abelian Stokes theorem for the Wilson loop.

We find that the VNABI is reduced to the magnetic monopoles associated with the color-direction fields. Therefore, the emergence of magnetic monopoles causes the VNABI, which contributes to quark confinement. We further conduct numerical simulations and provide numerical evidence.

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Co-authors

Kei-Ichi Kondo (Chiba University) Seikou Kato (Oyama National College of Technology)

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