Massless monopole clouds and electric-magnetic duality

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2002-11-07

arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0211050v3

Phys.Lett. B599 (2004) 339-346

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Theory

13 pages, 2 figures; v3: PLB version, Sec.II expanded, fig.2 and references added

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.physletb.2004.08.042

We discuss the Montonen-Olive electric-magnetic duality for the BPS massless monopole clouds in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory with non-Abelian unbroken gauge symmetries. We argue that these low energy non-Abelian clouds can be identified as the duals of the infrared bremsstrahlung radiation of the non-Abelian massless particles. After we break the N=4 supersymmetry to N=1 by adding a superpotential, or to N=0 by further adding soft breaking terms, these non-Abelian clouds will generally condense and screen the non-Abelian charges of the massive monopole probes. The effective mass of these dual non-Abelian states is likely to persist as we lower the energy to the QCD scale, if all the non-Abelian Higgs particles are massive. This can be regarded as a manifestation of the non-Abelian dual Meissner effect above the QCD scale, and we expect it to continuously connect with the confinement as we lower the supersymmetry breaking scale to the QCD scale.

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