Conditions on the violation of the cluster decomposition property in QCD

Abstract

The behaviour of correlators at large distances plays an important role in the dynamics of quantum field theories. In many instances, correlators satisfy the so-called \textit{cluster decomposition property} (CDP), which means that they tend to zero for space-like asymptotic distances. However, under certain conditions it is possible for correlators to violate this property. In the context of quantum chromodynamics (QCD), a violation of the CDP for correlators of clusters involving coloured fields implies that the strength of the correlations between the coloured degrees of freedom in these clusters increases at large distances, which is a sufficient condition for confinement. In this paper we establish a criterion for when the CDP is violated. By applying this criterion to QCD, it turns out that certain lattice results involving the quark and gluon propagators can be interpreted as evidence that quarks and gluons are confined due to a violation of the CDP.

13 pages; v3: additional comments added, matches published version

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