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Hauptverfasser: Bergner, Georg, González-Arroyo, Antonio, Soler, Ivan
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Bergner, Georg
González-Arroyo, Antonio
Soler, Ivan
author_facet Bergner, Georg
González-Arroyo, Antonio
Soler, Ivan
contents We study the behaviour of \SU{2} Yang-Mills fields on a $T_2\times R^2$ geometry where the two-torus is equipped with twisted boundary conditions. We monitor the evolution of the dynamics of the system as a function of the torus size $l_s$. For small sizes the behaviour of the system is well understood in terms of semiclassical predictions. In our case, the long distance structure is that of a two-dimensional gas of vortex-like fractional instantons with size and density growing with $l_s$. Our lattice Monte Carlo simulations confirm the semiclassical predictions and allow the determination of the relevant scale signalling the transition to the non-dilute situation. At low densities the string tension takes the standard value of a 2D center-vortex gas, growing with the density and approaching the value measured at infinite volume. Our work includes preliminary studies of the extension to \SU{N} and to the region of large sizes in which boundary conditions are irrelevant, and all physical scales are determined by the $Λ$ parameter.
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spellingShingle A $T_2 \times R^2$ roadmap to Confinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
Bergner, Georg
González-Arroyo, Antonio
Soler, Ivan
High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
We study the behaviour of \SU{2} Yang-Mills fields on a $T_2\times R^2$ geometry where the two-torus is equipped with twisted boundary conditions. We monitor the evolution of the dynamics of the system as a function of the torus size $l_s$. For small sizes the behaviour of the system is well understood in terms of semiclassical predictions. In our case, the long distance structure is that of a two-dimensional gas of vortex-like fractional instantons with size and density growing with $l_s$. Our lattice Monte Carlo simulations confirm the semiclassical predictions and allow the determination of the relevant scale signalling the transition to the non-dilute situation. At low densities the string tension takes the standard value of a 2D center-vortex gas, growing with the density and approaching the value measured at infinite volume. Our work includes preliminary studies of the extension to \SU{N} and to the region of large sizes in which boundary conditions are irrelevant, and all physical scales are determined by the $Λ$ parameter.
title A $T_2 \times R^2$ roadmap to Confinement in SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
topic High Energy Physics - Lattice
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10396