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Impact of Z2 monopoles and vortices on the deconfinement transition

Saumen Datta, R. V. Gavai

hep-latarXiv:hep-lat/9908040

Abstract

The impact of Z2-monopoles and vortices on the bulk and the deconfinement phase transitions of the SU(2) lattice gauge theory with a mixed Villain form of action is investigated by varying their numbers with appropriate chemical potentials. Suppressing the former shifts the line of deconfinement transitions in the coupling plane but it continues to behave also like the bulk transition line. We find separate deconfinement and bulk phase transitions on the same lattice, suggesting the two to be indeed coincident at higher adjoint couplings. Universality is restored when both monopoles and vortices are suppressed.

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