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Calorons and monopoles from smeared SU(2) lattice fields at non-zero temperature

E. -M. Ilgenfritz·B. V. Martemyanov·M. Müller-Preussker·A. I. Veselov
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In equilibrium, at finite temperature below and above the deconfining phase transition, we have generated lattice SU(2) gauge fields and have exposed them to smearing in order to investigate the emerging clusters of topological charge. Analysing in addition the monopole clusters according to the maximally Abelian gauge, we have been able to characterize part of the topological clusters to correspond either to non-static calorons or static dyons in the context of Kraan-van Baal caloron solutions with non-trivial holonomy. We show that the relative abundance of these calorons and dyons is changing with temperature and offer an interpretation as dissociation of calorons into dyons with increasing temperature. The profile of the Polyakov loop inside the topological clusters and the (model-dependent) accumulated topological cluster charges support this interpretation. Above the deconfining phase transition light dyons (according to Kraan-van Baal caloron solutions with almost trivial holonomy) become the most abundant topological objects. They are presumably responsible for the magnetic confinement in the deconfined phase.

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E. -M. Ilgenfritz, B. V. Martemyanov, M. Müller-Preussker, A. I. Veselov. 2006-06-19. Calorons and monopoles from smeared SU(2) lattice fields at non-zero temperature. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.73.094509

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