Published May 8, 2000 | Version v1
Journal article

Quark confinement physics from quantum chromodynamics

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We show the construction of the dual superconducting theory for the confinement mechanism from QCD in the maximally abelian (MA) gauge using the lattice QCD Monte Carlo simulation. We find that essence of infrared abelian dominance is naturally understood with the off-diagonal gluon mass moff ≅ 1.2GeV induced by the MA gauge fixing. In the MA gauge, the off-diagonal gluon amplitude is forced to be small, and the off-diagonal gluon phase tends to be random. As the mathematical origin of abelian dominance for confinement, we demonstrate that the strong randomness of the off-diagonal gluon phase leads to abelian dominance for the string tension. In the MA gauge, there appears the macroscopic network of the monopole world-line covering the whole system. We investigate the monopole-current system in the MA gauge by analyzing the dual gluon field Bμ. We evaluate the dual gluon mass as mB = 0.4 ∼ 0.5GeV in the infrared region, which is the lattice-QCD evidence of the dual Higgs mechanism by monopole condensation. Owing to infrared abelian dominance and infrared monopole condensation, QCD in the MA gauge is describable with the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory

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S037594740000066X;

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Journal Title
Nuclear Physics. A
Journal Volume
670
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 40c-47c
ISSN
0375-9474
CODEN
NUPABL

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Copyright (c) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.