Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2009-05-21
Phys.Rev.D81:025012,2010
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
11 pages, 1 figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.81.025012
SU(N) gauge theories, extended with adjoint fermions having periodic boundary conditions, are confining at high temperature for sufficiently light fermion mass $m$. In the high temperature confining region, the one-loop effective potential for Polyakov loops has a Z(N)-symmetric confining minimum. String tensions associated with Polyakov loops are calculable in perturbation theory, and display a novel scaling behavior in which higher representations have smaller string tensions than the fundamental representation. In the magnetic sector, the Polyakov loop plays a role similar to a Higgs field, leading to an apparent breaking of SU(N) to $U(1)^{N-1}$. This is turn yields a dual effective theory where magnetic monopoles give rise to string tensions for spatial Wilson loops. The spatial string tensions are calculable semiclassically from kink solutions of the dual system. We show that the spatial string tensions $\sigma^{(s)}_k$ associated with each $N$-ality $k$ obey a variant of Casimir scaling $\sigma^{(s)}_k /\sigma^{(s)}_1 \leq \sqrt{k(N-k)/(N-1)} $. Although lattice simulations indicate that the high temperature confining region is smoothly connected to the confining region of low-temperature pure SU(N) gauge theory, the electric and magnetic string tension scaling laws are different and readily distinguishable.
Meisinger Peter N.
Ogilvie Michael C.
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