Centre vortices in SU(3)

Alan Ó. Cais, Waseem Kamleh, Ben Lasscock, Derek Leinweber, Lorenz von Smekal, Kurt Langfeld

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Abstract

We investigate the effectiveness of using smearing as a means to generate a preconditioning transformation for gauge fields prior to fixing to Maximal Centre Gauge. This still leaves the gauge-fixed field in the original gauge orbit. As expected, we find that this preconditioning leads to higher maxima of the gauge-fixing condition, resulting in lower numbers of P-vortices. We also find that removing vortices appears to give a loss of confinement for all cases but that the string tension as measured from vortex-only configurations drops from about 65% to as low as 26% when using the preconditioning method.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of Science: 25th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
Place of PublicationItaly
PublisherSissa Medialab Srl
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - Regensburg, Germany
Duration: 30 Jul 20074 Aug 2007
Conference number: 25th

Publication series

NameProceedings of Science
Volume042

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Lattice Field Theory
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityRegensburg
Period30/07/074/08/07

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