Abelian monopole condensation in lattice gauge theories

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of lattice gauge theories in an Abelian monopole background field. By means of the gauge-invariant lattice Schrodinger functional we study the Abelian monopole condensation in U(1) lattice gauge theory at zero temperature and in SU(3) lattice gauge theory at finite temperature.Comment: LATTICE99(Confinement) 3 pages, 3 figure