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An approximate vacuum state of temporal-gauge Yang–Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions

An approximate vacuum state of temporal-gauge Yang–Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions. (in collaboration with Jeff Greensite) J. Greensite, ŠO, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 065003, arXiv:0707.2860 [hep-lat]. Introduction.

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An approximate vacuum state of temporal-gauge Yang–Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions

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  1. An approximate vacuum state of temporal-gauge Yang–Mills theory in 2+1 dimensions (in collaboration with Jeff Greensite) J. Greensite, ŠO, Phys. Rev. D 77 (2008) 065003, arXiv:0707.2860 [hep-lat] 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  2. Introduction • Confinement is the property of the vacuum of quantized non-abelian gauge theories. In the hamiltonian formulation in D=d+1 dimensions and temporal gauge: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  3. At large distance scales one expects: • Halpern (1979), Greensite (1979) • Greensite, Iwasaki (1989) • Kawamura, Maeda, Sakamoto (1997) • Karabali, Kim, Nair (1998) • Property of dimensional reduction: Computation of a spacelike loop in d+1 dimensions reduces to the calculation of a Wilson loop in Yang-Mills theory in d Euclidean dimensions. 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  4. Suggestion for an approximate vacuum wavefunctional 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  5. Support #1: Free-field limit (g!0) 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  6. Support #2: Zero-mode, strong-field limit • D. Diakonov (private communication to JG) • Let’s assume we keep only the zero-mode of the A-field, i.e. fields constant in space, varying in time. The lagrangian is and the hamiltonian operator • The ground-state solution of the YM Schrödinger equation, up to 1/V corrections: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  7. Now the proposed vacuum state coincides with this solution in the strong-field limit, assuming • The covariant laplacian is then and the eigenvalues of M are 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  8. Then • The argument can be extended also to 3+1 dimensions. 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  9. Support #3: Dimensional reduction and confinement • What about confinement with such a vacuum state? • Define “slow” and “fast” components using a mode-number cutoff: • Then: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  10. Effectively for “slow” components we then get the probability distribution of a 2D YM theory and can compute the string tension analytically (in lattice units): • Non-zero value of m implies non-zero string tension  and confinement! • Let’s revert the logic: to get  with the right scaling behavior ~ 1/2, we need to choose 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  11. Why m02 = -0 + m2 ? • Samuel (1997) 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  12. Support #4: Non-zero m is energetically preferred • Take m as a variational parameter and minimize <H > with respect to m: • Assuming the variation of K with A in the neighborhood of thermalized configurations is small, and neglecting therefore functional derivatives of K w.r.t. A one gets: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  13. Abelian free-field limit: minimum at m2 = 0 → 0. 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  14. Non-abelian case: Minimum at non-zero m2 (~ 0.3), though a higher value (~ 0.5) would be required to get the right string tension. • Could (and should) be improved! 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  15. Support #5: Calculation of the mass gap • To extract the mass gap, one would like to compute in the probability distribution: • Looks hopeless, K[A] is highly non-local, not even known for arbitrary fields. • But if - after choosing a gauge - K[A] does not vary a lot among thermalized configurations … then something can be done. • Numerical simulation 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  16. Numerical simulation of |0|2 • Define: • Hypothesis: • Iterative procedure: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  17. Practical implementation: choose e.g. axial A1=0 gauge, change variables from A2 to B. Then Spiral gauge • given A2, set A2’=A2, • the probabilityP[A;K[A’]] is gaussian in B, diagonalize K[A’] and generate new B-field (set of Bs) stochastically; • from B, calculate A2 in axial gauge, and compute everything of interest; • go back to the first step, repeat as many times as necessary. • All this is done on a lattice. • Of interest: • Eigenspectrum of the adjoint covariant laplacian. • Connected field-strength correlator, to get the mass gap: • For comparison the same computed on 2D slices of 3D lattices generated by Monte Carlo. 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  18. Eigenspectrum of the adjoint covariant laplacian 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  19. Mass gap 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

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  21. Summary (of apparent pros) • Our simple approximate form of the confining YM vacuum wavefunctional in 2+1 dimensions has the following properties: • It is a solution of the YM Schrödinger equation in the weak-coupling limit … • … and also in the zero-mode, strong-field limit. • Dimensional reduction works: There is confinement (non-zero string tension) if the free mass parameter m is larger than 0. • m > 0 seems energetically preferred. • If the free parameter m is adjusted to give the correct string tension at the given coupling, then the correct value of the mass gap is also obtained. 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  22. Open questions (or contras?) • Can one improve (systematically) our vacuum wavefunctional Ansatz? • Can one make a more reliable variational estimate of m? • Comparison to other proposals? • Karabali, Kim, Nair (1998) • Leigh, Minic, Yelnikov (2007) • What about N-ality? • Knowing the (approximate) ground state, can one construct an (approximate) flux-tube state, estimate its energy as a function of separation, and get the right value of the string tension? • How to go to 3+1 dimensions? • Much more challenging (Bianchi identity, numerical treatment very CPU time consuming). • The zero-mode, strong-field limit argument valid (in certain approximation) also in D=3+1. Comparison to KKN N-ality Flux-tube state 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  23. Comparison to KKN • The KKN string tension following from the above differs from string tensions obtained by standard MC methods, and the disagreement worsens with increasing . 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  24. N-ality • Dimensional reduction form at large distances implies area law for large Wilson loops, but also Casimir scaling of higher-representation Wilson loops. • How does Casimir scaling turn into N-ality dependence, how does color screening enter the game? • A possibility: Necessity to introduce additional term(s), e.g. a gauge-invariant mass term • Cornwall (2007) … but color screening may be contained! • Strong-coupling: • Greensite (1980) 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  25. Guo, Chen, Li (1994) 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

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  27. Flux-tube state • The simplest guess: where (- D2) is the covariant laplacian (on a time-slice) in the fundamental representation. • The energy of such a state for a given quark-antiquark separation can be computed from: 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  28. On a lattice: • Work is in progress. • A more elaborate Ansatz, motivated by the gluon-chain model: • Thorn (1979), Greensite (1985), Greensite, Thorn (2002) 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  29. Thank you for attention,and Axel and Christian for invitation to this beautiful place and workshop which has been such a refreshment in the hard life of a theorist! 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  30. Spiral gauge 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

  31. Dimensions 415th Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Seminar: "Quarks and Hadrons in Strong QCD" St. Goar, Germany, March 17-20, 2008

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