Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2002-06-10
Phys.Rev. D66 (2002) 074503
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
34 pages, 13 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.66.074503
Finite temperature Euclidean SU(2) lattice gauge fields generated in the confinement phase close to the deconfinement phase transition are subjected to cooling. The aim is to identify long-living, almost-classical local excitations which carry (generically non-integer) topological charge. Two kinds of spatial boundary conditions (fixed holonomy and standard periodic boundary conditions) are applied. For the lowest-action almost-classical configurations we find that their relative probability semi-quantitatively agrees for both types of boundary conditions. We find calorons with unit topological charge as well as (anti-)selfdual lumps (BPS-monopoles or dyons) combined in pairs of non-integer (equal or opposite sign) topological charge. For calorons and separated pairs of equal-sign dyons obtained by cooling we have found that (i) the gluon field is well-described by Kraan-van Baal solutions of the Euclidean Yang-Mills field equations and (ii) the lowest Wilson-fermion modes are well-described by analytic solutions of the corresponding Dirac equation. For metastable configurations found at higher action, the multi-center structure can be interpreted in terms of dyons and antidyons, using the gluonic and fermionic indicators as in the dyon-pair case. Additionally, the Abelian monopole structure and field strength correlators between the centers are useful to analyse the configurations in terms of dyonic constituents. We argue that a semi-classical approximation of the non-zero temperature path integral should be built on superpositions of solutions with non-trivial holonomy.
Ilgenfritz Ernst-Michael
Martemyanov Boris V.
Muller-Preussker Michael
Shcheredin Stanislav
Veselov A. I.
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