Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Lattice
Scientific paper
2006-03-27
Phys.Rev. D74 (2006) 014502
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Lattice
8 pages, 11 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.014502
We further investigate center vortex percolation and Coulomb gauge remnant symmetry breaking in the SU(2) gauge-Higgs model. We show that string breaking is visible in Polyakov line correlators on the center projected lattice, that our usual numerical tests successfully relate P-vortices to center vortices, and that vortex removal removes the linear potential, as in the pure gauge theory. This data suggests that global center symmetry is not essential to the vortex confinement mechanism. But we also find that the line of vortex percolation-depercolation transitions, and the line of remnant symmetry breaking transitions, do not coincide in the SU(2)-Higgs phase diagram. This non-uniqueness of transition lines associated with non-local order parameters favors a straightforward interpretation of the Fradkin-Shenker theorem, namely: there is no unambiguous distinction, in the SU(2) gauge-Higgs models, between a "confining" phase and a Higgs phase.
Greensite Jeff
Olejnik Stefan
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