Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2000-11-08
Eur.Phys.J.direct C3 (2001) 1
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
25 pages (Latex), 18 figures (.ps and .png)
Scientific paper
Configurations of pure SU(2) gauge field theory on the lattice are transformed to Landau gauge. After Fourier transformation, large momentum amplitudes are suppressed (filtered) by a variable amount, and the configurations are transformed back to x-space. Spectacular peaks in electric and magnetic field strengths are found, which share many properties with either almost pointlike instantons in regular gauge or with extended anti-instantons in singular gauge. The environment around those peaks are visualized with respect to the action, to the topological charge density, to the gauge fields and to electric and magnetic field strengths. The density of the peaks is of order 1 / fm**4, and it scales according to the string tension under a variation of the coupling constant. The evolution of the peaks under the amount of Fourier filtering is visualy compared to the evolution under cooling, and the gauge dependence of the peaks is discussed. Advantages and shortcomings of this method are discussed, with emphasis on possible strong distortions of the action and topological charge density, which become gauge dependent. Finally, I compare the character of the SU(2)-configurations to those of noncompact abelian theory.
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