Coulomb Energy, Remnant Symmetry, and the Phases of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories
| dc.creator | Greensite, Jeff | |
| dc.creator | Olejnik, Stefan | |
| dc.creator | Zwanziger, Daniel | |
| dc.date | 2004-01-01 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T11:30:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T11:30:46Z | |
| dc.description | We show that the confining property of the one-gluon propagator, in Coulomb gauge, is linked to the unbroken realization of a remnant gauge symmetry which exists in this gauge. An order parameter for the remnant gauge symmetry is introduced, and its behavior is investigated in a variety of models via numerical simulations. We find that the color-Coulomb potential, associated with the gluon propagator, grows linearly with distance both in the confined and - surprisingly - in the high-temperature deconfined phase of pure Yang-Mills theory. We also find a remnant symmetry-breaking transition in SU(2) gauge-Higgs theory which completely isolates the Higgs from the (pseudo)confinement region of the phase diagram. This transition exists despite the absence, pointed out long ago by Fradkin and Shenker, of a genuine thermodynamic phase transition separating the two regions. | |
| dc.description | 18 pages, 19 figures, revtex4 | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0401003 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0401003 | |
| dc.identifier | Phys.Rev.D69:074506,2004 | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.074506 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/197079 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Lattice | |
| dc.title | Coulomb Energy, Remnant Symmetry, and the Phases of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories | |
| dc.type | text |