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Monopoles and Vortices in the SU(2) Positive Plaquette Model

John D. Stack, William Tucker

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9810011

Abstract

We study the heavy quark potential in the SU(2) positive plaquette model using monopoles in the maximum abelian gauge, and vortices. Monopoles give a quantitative description of the string tension. Vortices approximately reproduce the entire heavy quark potential.

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