Remarks on a model with topological mass from gauging spin
arXiv:1708.05730 · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/120/11001
Abstract
Aspects of screening and confinement are reassessed for a model with topological mass with the gauging of spin. Our discussion is carried out using the gauge-invariant, but path-dependent, variables formalism. We explicitly show that the static potential profile is the sum of a Yukawa and a linear potential, leading to the confinement of static external charges. Interestingly enough, similar results are obtained in a theory of antisymmetric tensor fields that results from the condensation of topological defects as a consequence of the Julia-Toulouse mechanism.
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