Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2005-04-09
Phys.Rev.D71:114507,2005
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
11 pages, 24 figures, reference added
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.114507
As a probe of the Yang-Mills vacuum, we study numerically the eigenmode spectrum of the covariant lattice Laplacian operator. We find that the eigenmodes at the low and high ends of the spectrum are localized in finite regions whose volume is insensitive to the lattice volume. We also find that the vacuum is seen very differently by localized modes of the covariant Laplacian in different representations of the gauge group. In the fundamental representation, the data suggests that the localization volume is finite in physical units set by the string tension, and localization disappears when center vortices are removed. In the adjoint and j=3/2 representations the low and high-lying modes are far more localized, and the localization volume appears to scale to zero, in physical units, in the continuum limit. The adjoint Laplacian is insensitive to vortex removal, but we find that exponential localization is absent for adjoint eigenmodes in the Higgs phase of a gauge-Higgs theory. Localization is also absent in the spectrum of the Coulomb gauge Faddeev-Popov operator, as required in Coulomb gauge confinement scenarios.
Greensite Jeff
Olejnik Stefan
Polikarpov Mikhail I.
Syritsyn Sergey N.
Zakharov Valentin I.
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