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Vortex structure of the vacuum and confinement

T. G. Kovács, E. T. Tomboulis

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0010076

Abstract

We discuss the recently published numerical computations of the vortex free energy. They dramatically demonstrate that the excitation probability for a sufficiently thick vortex approaches unity at large beta, i.e. that thick vortices `condense' in the vacuum. This is known to imply confinement. An analytical approach for exploring this phenomenon is also outlined.

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