't Hooft Loop in SU(2) Yang-Mills Theory
- 19 February 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (8) , 1438-1441
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.1438
Abstract
We study the behavior of the spatial and temporal 't Hooft loop at zero and finite temperature in the 4D SU(2) Yang-Mills theory, using a new numerical method. In the deconfined phase , the spatial 't Hooft loop exhibits a dual string tension, which vanishes at with a 3D Ising-like critical exponent.
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