Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2005-11-30
Eur.Phys.J.C48:179-192,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
14 pages, 4 figures, submitted to EPJC
Scientific paper
10.1140/epjc/s10052-006-0003-y
In the Gribov-Zwanziger scenario the confinement of gluons is attributed to an enhancement of the spectrum of the Faddeev-Popov operator near eigenvalue zero. This has been observed in functional and also in lattice calculations. The linear rise of the quark-anti-quark potential and thus quark confinement on the other hand seems to be connected to topological excitations. To investigate whether a connection exists between both aspects of confinement, the spectrum of the Faddeev-Popov operator in two topological background fields is determined analytically in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory. It is found that a single instanton, which is likely irrelevant to quark confinement, also sustains only few additional zero-modes. A center vortex, which is likely important to quark confinement, is found to contribute much more zero-modes, provided the vortex is of sufficient flux. Furthermore, the corresponding eigenstates in the vortex case satisfy one necessary condition for the confinement of quarks.
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