Role of center vortices in chiral symmetry breaking in SU(3) gauge theory

Patrick O. Bowman; Kurt Langfeld; Derek B. Leinweber; Andre Sternbeck; Lorenz Von Smekal; Anthony G. Williams

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034501

Role of center vortices in chiral symmetry breaking in SU(3) gauge theory

Patrick O. Bowman, Kurt Langfeld, Derek B. Leinweber, Andre Sternbeck, Lorenz Von Smekal, Anthony G. Williams

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We study the behavior of the AsqTad quark propagator in Landau gauge on SU(3) Yang-Mills gauge configurations under the removal of center vortices. In SU(2) gauge theory, center vortices have been observed to generate chiral symmetry breaking and support the infrared behavior of the quark propagator. In contrast, we report a weak dependence on the vortex content of the SU(3) gauge configurations, including the survival of dynamical mass generation on configurations with vanishing string tension.

Original language	English
Article number	034501
Number of pages	9
Journal	Physical Review D
Volume	84
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.034501
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes

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