Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2011-02-18
JHEP 1108:118,2011
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
66 pages, 4 figures, JHEP style, version accepted for publication in JHEP
Scientific paper
10.1007/JHEP08(2011)118
In this work the phenomenon of charge confinement is approached in various contexts. An universal criterion for the identification of this phenomenon in Abelian gauge theories is suggested: the so-called spontaneous breaking of the brane symmetry. This local symmetry has its most common manifestation in the Dirac string ambiguity present in the electromagnetic theory with monopoles. The spontaneous breaking of the brane symmetry means that the Dirac string becomes part of a brane invariant observable which hides the realization of such a symmetry and develops energy content in the confinement regime. The establishment of this regime can be reached through the condensation of topological defects. The effective theory of the confinement regime can be obtained with the Julia-Toulouse prescription which (originally introduced as the dual mechanism to the Abelian Higgs Mechanism) is generalized in this paper in order to become fully compatible with Elitzur's theorem and describe more general condensates which may break Lorentz and discrete spacetime symmetries. This generalized approach for the condensation of defects is presented here through a series of different applications.
Grigorio L. S.
Guimaraes Marcelo S.
Rougemont R.
Wotzasek Clovis
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