Published February 27, 2007
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Journal article
Topological Charge and the Laminar Structure of the QCD Vacuum
Description
Monte Carlo studies of pure glue SU(3) gauge theory using the overlap-based topological charge operator have revealed a laminar structure in the QCD vacuum consisting of extended, thin, coherent, locally 3-dimensional sheets of topological charge embedded in 4D space, with opposite sign sheets interleaved. In this talk I discuss the interpretation of these Monte Carlo results in terms of our current theoretical understanding of theta-dependence and topological structure in asymptotically free gauge theories
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.2714378;
- arXiv
- arXiv:hep-th/0611348v1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 892
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 223-226
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 7. conference on quark confinement and the hadron spectrum
- Acronym
- QCHS7
- Dates
- 2-7 Sep 2006
- Place
- Ponta Delgada, Acores (Portugal)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 39074025
- Subject category
- S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; FIELD OPERATORS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; GAUGE INVARIANCE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS; SU-3 GROUPS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; TOPOLOGY; VACUUM STATES
- Descriptors DEC
- CALCULATION METHODS; FIELD THEORIES; INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES; LIE GROUPS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATHEMATICS; QUANTUM FIELD THEORY; QUANTUM OPERATORS; SIMULATION; SU GROUPS; SYMMETRY GROUPS
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics