Abelianization of QCD in the Maximally Abelian Gauge and the Nambu-'t Hooft Picture for Color Confinement

We study the Nambu-'t Hooft picture for color confinement in terms of the abelianization of QCD and monopole condensation in the maximally abelian (MA) gauge. In the MA gauge in the Euclidean metric, the off-diagonal gluon amplitude is strongly suppressed, and then the off-diagonal gluon phase shows strong randomness, which leads to rapid reduction of the off-diagonal gluon correlation. In SU(2) and SU(3) lattice QCD in the MA gauge with the abelian Landau gauge, the Euclidean gluon propagator indicates a large effective mass of the off-diagonal gluon as $M_{\rm off} \simeq 1 {\rm GeV}$ in the intermediate distance as $0.2{\rm fm} \le r \le 0.8{\rm fm}$. Due to the infrared inactiveness of off-diagonal gluons, infrared QCD is well abelianized like nonabelian Higgs theories in the MA gauge. We investigate the inter-monopole potential and the dual gluon field $B_\mu$ in the MA gauge, and find longitudinal magnetic screening with $m_B \simeq$ 0.5 GeV in the infrared region, which indicates the dual Higgs mechanism by monopole condensation. We define the ``gluonic Higgs scalar field'' providing the MA projection, and find the correspondence between its hedgehog singularity and the monopole location in lattice QCD.Comment: Invited talk given at QCD02: High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics, Montpellier, France, 2-9 Jul 200

Quark Confinement Physics from Quantum Chromodynamics

We show the construction of the dual superconducting theory for the confinement mechanism from QCD in the maximally abelian (MA) gauge using the lattice QCD Monte Carlo simulation. We find that essence of infrared abelian dominance is naturally understood with the off-diagonal gluon mass $m_{\rm off} \simeq 1.2 {\rm GeV}$ induced by the MA gauge fixing. In the MA gauge, the off-diagonal gluon amplitude is forced to be small, and the off-diagonal gluon phase tends to be random. As the mathematical origin of abelian dominance for confinement, we demonstrate that the strong randomness of the off-diagonal gluon phase leads to abelian dominance for the string tension. In the MA gauge, there appears the macroscopic network of the monopole world-line covering the whole system. We investigate the monopole-current system in the MA gauge by analyzing the dual gluon field $B_\mu$. We evaluate the dual gluon mass as $m_B = 0.4 \sim$ 0.5GeV in the infrared region, which is the lattice-QCD evidence of the dual Higgs mechanism by monopole condensation. Owing to infrared abelian dominance and infrared monopole condensation, QCD in the MA gauge is describable with the dual Ginzburg-Landau theory.Comment: Invited talk given at KEK-Tanashi International Symposium on Physics of Hadrons and Nuclei, Tokyo, Japan, 14-17 Dec 199

Monopole Current Dynamics and Color Confinement

Color confinement can be understood by the dual Higgs theory, where monopole condensation leads to the exclusion of the electric flux from the QCD vacuum. We study the role of the monopole for color confinement by investigating the monopole current system. When the self-energy of the monopole current is small enough, long and complicated monopole world-lines appear, which is a signal of monopole condensation. In the dense monopole system, the Wilson loop obeys the area-law, and the string tension and the monopole density have similar behavior as the function of the self-energy, which seems that monopole condensation leads to color confinement. On the long-distance physics, the monopole current system almost reproduces essential features of confinement properties in lattice QCD. In the short-distance physics, however, the monopole-current theory would become nonlocal and complicated due to the monopole size effect. This monopole size would provide a critical scale of QCD in terms of the dual Higgs mechanism.Comment: 6 pages LaTeX, 5 figures, uses espcrc1.sty, Talk presented at International Conference on Quark Lepton Nuclear Physics, Osaka, May. 199

Y-type Flux-Tube Formation in Baryons

For more than 300 different patterns of the 3Q systems, the ground-state 3Q potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ is investigated using SU(3) lattice QCD with $12^3\times 24$ at $\beta=5.7$ and $16^3\times 32$ at $\beta=5.8, 6.0$ at the quenched level. As a result of the detailed analyses, we find that the ground-state potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ is well described with so-called Y-ansatz as $V_{\rm 3Q}=-A_{\rm 3Q}\sum_{i<j}\frac1{|{\bf r}_i-{\bf r}_j|} +\sigma_{\rm 3Q} L_{\rm min}+C_{\rm 3Q}$, with the accuracy better than 1%. Here, $L_{\rm min}$ denotes the minimal value of total flux-tube length. We also studythe excited-state potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm e.s.}$ using lattice QCD with $16^3\times 32$ at $\beta=5.8, 6.0$ for more than 100 patterns of the 3Q systems. The energy gap between $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ and $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm e.s.}$, which physically means the gluonic excitation energy, is found to be about 1 GeV in the typical hadronic scale. Finally, we suggest a possible scenario which connects the success of the quark model to QCD.Comment: Talk given at Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics (Confinement 2003), Saitama, Japan, 21-24 July 2003; 5 pages, 4 figure

Y-type Flux-Tube Formation and Gluonic Excitations in Baryons: From QCD to Quark Model

Using SU(3) lattice QCD, we perform the first systematic study for the ground-state three-quark (3Q) potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ and the 1st excited-state 3Q potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm e.s.}$, {\it i.e.}, the energies of the ground state and the 1st excited state of the gluon field in the presence of the static three quarks. From the accurate and thorough calculation for more than 300 different patterns of 3Q systems, the static ground-state 3Q potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ is found to be well described by the Coulomb plus Y-type linear potential, {\it i.e.}, Y-Ansatz, within 1%-level deviation. As a clear evidence for Y-Ansatz, Y-type flux-tube formation is actually observed on the lattice in maximally-Abelian projected QCD. For more than 100 patterns of 3Q systems, we calculate the 1st excited-state 3Q potential $V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm e.s.}$ in quenched lattice QCD, and find the gluonic excitation energy $\Delta E_{\rm 3Q} \equiv V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm e.s.}-V_{\rm 3Q}^{\rm g.s.}$ to be about 1 GeV. This large gluonic-excitation energy is conjectured to ensure the success of the quark model for the low-lying hadrons even without gluonic excitations.Comment: Talk given at International Conference on Color Confinement and Hadrons in Quantum Chromodynamics - Confinement 2003, RIKEN, Japan, 21-24 Jul 200

Flux Tubes of Two- and Three-Quark System in Full QCD

We study the abelian color flux of two- and three-quark systems in the maximally abelian gauge in lattice QCD with dynamical fermions. We find that the abelian flux tube formed between quark and antiquark is very much the same as in quenched QCD up to quark separations of $R$$\sim$ 2fm. The profile of the color electric field in three-quark system suggests $Y$ ansatz, which might be interpreted as the result of the vacuum pressure in the confined phase. In order to clarify the flux structure, we investigate the color electric field of the three-quark system splittting the abelian gauge field into the monopole and photon parts.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figures, Talk given at XVI International Conference on Particles and Nuclei (PaNic02),Osaka, Japan, Sep.30 - Oct.4, 200

Instanton, Monopole Condensation and Confinement

The confinement mechanism in the nonperturbative QCD is studied in terms of topological excitation as QCD-monopoles and instantons. In the 't Hooft abelian gauge, QCD is reduced into an abelian gauge theory with monopoles, and the QCD vacuum can be regarded as the dual superconductor with monopole condensation, which leads to the dual Higgs mechanism. The monopole-current theory extracted from QCD is found to have essential features of confinement. We find also close relation between monopoles and instantons using the lattice QCD. In this framework, the lowest $0^{++}$ glueball (1.5 $\sim$ 1.7GeV) can be identified as the QCD-monopole or the dual Higgs particle.Comment: Talk presented by H.Suganuma at the 5th Topical Seminar on The Irresistible Rise of the Standard Model, San Miniato al Todesco, Italy, 21-25 April 1997 5 pages, Plain Late