Electric and Magnetic Fluxes in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
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For pure SU(N) gauge theory without quarks ’t Hooft’s gauge invariant electric and magnetic fluxes [1] describe, respectively, the effect of a static fundamental color charge and a center monopole in a finite volume. The partition function of a certain amount of electric/magnetic flux yields the free energy of a static electric/magnetic charge with boundary conditions to imitate the presence of its ’mirror’ (anti)charge in a neighboring box along the direction of the flux. Herein, we extend our previous study [2] of the purely electric fluxes in SU(2) by measuring also the magnetic ones and combinations of the two.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002