Deconfinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory as a center vortex percolation transition

Details Deconfinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory as a center vortex percolation transition Deconfinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory as a center vortex percolation transition

1999-04-06

arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/9904004v1

Phys.Rev.D61:054504,2000

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Lattice

31 latex pages, 10 ps figures included using epsf

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.61.054504

By fixing lattice Yang-Mills configurations to the maximal center gauge and subsequently applying the technique of center projection, one can identify center vortices in these configurations. Recently, center vortices have been shown to determine the string tension between static quarks at finite temperatures (center dominance); also, they correctly reproduce the deconfining transition to a phase with vanishing string tension. After verifying center dominance also for the so-called spatial string tension, the present analysis focuses on the global topology of vortex networks. General arguments are given supporting the notion that the deconfinement transition in the center vortex picture takes the guise of a percolation transition. This transition is detected in Monte Carlo experiments by concentrating on various slices through the closed vortex surfaces; these slices, representing loops in lattice universes reduced by one dimension, clearly exhibit the expected transition from a percolating to a non-percolating, deconfined, phase. The latter phase contains a large proportion of vortex loops winding around the lattice in the Euclidean time direction. At the same time, an intuitive picture clarifying the persistence of the spatial string tension in the deconfined phase emerges.

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