Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
1992-11-11
Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl. 30 (1993) 583-586
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
(Postscript file fixed; see file header.) 4 pages, DOE/ER/40617-135 and LSUHEP-10-92
Scientific paper
10.1016/0920-5632(93)90279-F
In compact QED$_{2+1}$ quantum monopole fluctuations induce confinement by expelling electric flux in a dual Meissner effect. Guided by Landau-Ginzburg theory, one might guess that the inverse London penetration depth $\lambda^{-1}$---the only physical mass scale---equals the photon propagator mass pole $M_\gamma$. I show this is not true. Indeed, in the Villain approximation the monopole part of the partition function factorizes from the photon part, whose dynamical variables are Dirac strings. Since Dirac strings are gauge-variant structures, I conclude that $M_\gamma$ is physically irrelevant: it is not a blood relative of $\lambda$ or any other quantity in the gauge-invariant sector. This result is confirmed by numerical simulations in the full theory, where $M_\gamma$ is not sensitive to monopole prohibition but essentially vanishes if Dirac strings are prohibited.
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