Spontaneous breaking of residual gauge symmetries on the lattice
| dc.creator | Grady, Michael | |
| dc.date | 2005-12-31 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T06:58:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T06:58:08Z | |
| dc.description | Lattice gauge theories are considered with a partial axial gauge fixing along one direction only. This leaves a residual gauge symmetry that is still local in three directions but now global in one. It is found that this $N^{d-1}$ fold symmetry (on an $N^d$ lattice) breaks spontaneously at weak coupling with the gauge field elements on links averaged over 1-d chains along the gauge-fixing direction as order parameters. This phase transition is observed with Monte-Carlo simulations for both 3-d Z2 and 4-d SU(2) pure gauge theories and appears to be coincident with the deconfinement transition. This work calls into question the equivalence of different gauges in certain circumstances. | |
| dc.description | 23 pages, 10 figures, LaTex | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0601002 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-lat/0601002 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/107238 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Lattice | |
| dc.title | Spontaneous breaking of residual gauge symmetries on the lattice | |
| dc.type | text |