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Electric and Magnetic Fluxes in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory

Lorenz von Smekal, with Philippe de Forcrand

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/0209149

Abstract

We measure the free energies in SU(2) of static fundamental charges and center monopoles. Dual to temporal center fluxes, the former provide a well-defined (dis)order parameter for deconfinement. In contrast, the monopole free energies vanish in the thermodynamic limit at all temperatures and are thus irrelevant for the transition.

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