Continuity, Deconfinement, and (Super) Yang-Mills Theory

Abstract

We study the phase diagram of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory with one adjoint Weyl fermion on R^3xS^1 as a function of the fermion mass m and the compactification scale L. This theory reduces to thermal pure gauge theory as m->infinity and to circle-compactified (non-thermal) supersymmetric gluodynamics in the limit m->0. In the m-L plane, there is a line of center symmetry changing phase transitions. In the limit m->infinity, this transition takes place at L_c=1/T_c, where T_c is the critical temperature of the deconfinement transition in pure Yang-Mills theory. We show that near m=0, the critical compactification scale L_c can be computed using semi-classical methods and that the transition is of second order. This suggests that the deconfining phase transition in pure Yang-Mills theory is continuously connected to a transition that can be studied at weak coupling. The center symmetry changing phase transition arises from the competition of perturbative contributions and monopole-instantons that destabilize the center, and topological molecules (neutral bions) that stabilize the center. The contribution of molecules can be computed using supersymmetry in the limit m=0, and via the Bogomolnyi--Zinn-Justin (BZJ) prescription in the non-supersymmetric gauge theory. Finally, we also give a detailed discussion of an issue that has not received proper attention in the context of N=1 theories---the non-cancellation of nonzero-mode determinants around supersymmetric BPS and KK monopole-instanton backgrounds on R^3xS^1. We explain why the non-cancellation is required for consistency with holomorphy and supersymmetry and perform an explicit calculation of the one-loop determinant ratio.

A discussion of the non-cancellation of the nonzero mode determinants around supersymmetric monopole-instantons in N=1 SYM on R^3xS^1 is added, including an explicit calculation. The non-cancellation is, in fact, required by supersymmetry and holomorphy in order for the affine-Toda superpotential to be reproduced. References have also been added

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• Abelian duality, confinement, and chiral symmetry breaking in QCD(adj)
• Theta dependence of the deconfinement temperature in Yang-Mills theories

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