Finite-Size Results for SU(3) Gauge Theory
- 1 December 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 57 (22) , 2783-2786
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.57.2783
Abstract
We give the semiclassical evaluation of the energy of electric flux in units of the glueball mass for SU(3) gauge theory and predict a crossover in this quantity around . The parameter is the length of the sides of a cubic volume (the three-torus) in units of the inverse glueball mass. We discuss lattice gauge theory in the context of a finite volume and compare our analytic prediction with recent SU(3) Monte Carlo results.
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