182 research outputs found
On condensation of charged scalars in D=3 dimensions
By using the gauge-invariant, but path-dependent, variables formalism, we
study the impact of condensates on physical observables for a three-dimensional
Higgs-like model. As a result, for the case of a physical mass term like , we recover a screening potential. Interestingly enough, in the
case of a "wrong-sign" mass term , unexpected features
are found. It is shown that the interaction energy is the sum of an
effective-Bessel and a linear potential, leading to the confinement of static
charges. However, when a Chern-Simons term is included, the surprising result
is that the theory describes an exactly screening phase.Comment: 13 page
Confinement from spontaneous breaking of scale symmetry
We show that one can obtain naturally the confinement of static charges from
the spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance in a gauge theory. At the
classical level a confining force is obtained and at the quantum level, using a
gauge invariant but path-dependent variables formalism, the Cornell confining
potential is explicitly obtained. Our procedure answers completely to the
requirements by 't Hooft for ''perturbative confinement''.Comment: 6 page
Static potential from spontaneous breaking of scale symmetry
We determine the static potential for a heavy quark-antiquark pair from the
spontaneous symmetry breaking of scale invariance in a non-Abelian gauge
theory. Our calculation is done within the framework of the gauge-invariant,
path-dependent, variables formalism. The result satisfies the 't Hooft basic
criterion for achieving confinement.Comment: 13 pages, Latex, no figures; final version accepted for publication
in PLB, new references and comments, physical results unchange
Aspects of finite electrodynamics in D=3 dimensions
We study the impact of a minimal length on physical observables for a
three-dimensional axionic electrodynamics. Our calculation is done within the
framework of the gauge-invariant, but path-dependent, variables formalism which
is alternative to the Wilson loop approach. Our result shows that the
interaction energy contains a regularised Bessel function and a linear
confining potential. This calculation involves no theta expansion at all. Once
again, the present analysis displays the key role played by the new quantum of
length.Comment: 12 pages, 2 figures; reference list updated and extended; new
aknowlegments; removed line after eq.(1) erroneously inserte
Remarks on Screening in a Gauge-Invariant Formalism
In this paper we display a direct and physically attractive derivation of the
screening contribution to the interaction potential in the Chiral Schwinger
model and generalized Maxwell-Chern-Simons gauge theory. It is shown that these
results emerge naturally when a correct separation between gauge-invariant and
gauge degrees of freedom is made. Explicit expressions for gauge-invariant
fields are found.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figure, to appear in PR
Confinement effects from interacting chromo-magnetic and axion fields
We study a non-Abelian gauge theory with a pseudo scalar coupling \phi
\epsilon ^{\mu \nu \alpha \beta} F_{\mu \nu}^a F_{\alpha \beta}^a in the case
where a constant chromo-electric, or chromo-magnetic, strength expectation
value is present. We compute the interaction potential within the framework of
gauge-invariant, path-dependent, variables formalism. While in the case of a
constant chromo-electric field strength expectation value the static potential
remains Coulombic, in the case of a constant chromo-magnetic field strength the
potential energy is the sum of a Coulombic and a linear potentials, leading to
the confinement of static charges.Comment: 12 pages, no figures, published versio
Stress Inversion in a Gelatin Box: Testing Eruptive Vent Location Forecasts With Analog Models
Assessing volcanic hazard in regions of distributed volcanism is challenging because of the uncertain location of future vents. A statistical-mechanical strategy to forecast such locations was recently proposed: here, we further develop and test it with analog models. We stress a gelatin block laterally and with surface excavations, and observe air-filled crack trajectories. We use the observed surface arrivals to sample the distributions of parameters describing the stress state of the gelatin block, combining deterministic crack trajectory simulations with a Monte Carlo approach. While the individual stress parameters remain unconstrained, we effectively retrieve their ratio and successfully forecast the arrival points of subsequent cracks
Dynamical Couplings, Dynamical Vacuum Energy and Confinement/Deconfinement from R^2-Gravity
We study within Palatini formalism an f(R)-gravity with f(R)= R + \alpha R^2
interacting with a dilaton and a special kind of nonlinear gauge field system
containing a square-root of the standard Maxwell term, which is known to
produce confinement in flat space-time. Reformulating the model in the physical
Einstein frame we find scalar field effective potential with a flat region
where the confinement dynamics disappears, while in other regions it remains
intact. The effective gauge couplings as well as the induced cosmological
constant become dynamical. In particular, a conventional Maxwell kinetic term
for the gauge field is dynamically generated even if absent in the original
theory. We find few interesting classes of explicit solutions: (i)
asymptotically (anti-)de Sitter black holes of non-standard type with
additional confining vacuum electric potential even for the electrically
neutral ones; (ii) non-standard Reissner-Nordstroem black holes with additional
constant vacuum electric field and having non-flat-spacetime "hedgehog"
asymptotics; (iii) generalized Levi-Civitta-Bertotti-Robinson "tube-like"
space-times.Comment: 16 page
On scale symmetry breaking and confinement in D=3 models
Within the framework of the gauge-invariant, but path-dependent, variables
formalism, we study the connection between scale symmetry breaking and
confinement in three-dimensional gluodynamics. We explicitly show that the
static potential profile contains a linear potential, leading to the
confinement of static charges. Also, we establish a new type of equivalence
among different three-dimensional effective theories.Comment: 6 pages, references adde
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