Magnetic monopoles and the topology of gauge fields

✍ Scribed by H. Reinhardt

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 370 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0920-5632
• DOI: 10.1016/s0920-5632(99)00197-8

✦ Synopsis

Lattice calculations performed in Abelian gauges give strong evidence that confinement is realized as a dual Meissner effect, implying that the Yang-Mills vacuum consists of a condensate of magnetic monopoles. We show in Polyakov gauge how the Pontrjagin index of the gauge field is related to the magnetic monopole charges.