Instantons and Monopoles in the Maximally Abelian Gauge
arXiv:hep-lat/9511016 · doi:10.1016/0370-2693(96)00017-2
Abstract
We study the Abelian projection of SU(2) instantons in the Maximally Abelian gauge. We find that in this gauge an isolated instanton produces a closed monopole loop within its core and the size of this loop increases with the core size. We show that this result is robust against the introduction of small quantum fluctuations. We investigate the effects of neighbouring (anti)instantons upon each other and show how overlapping (anti)instantons can generate larger monopole loops. We find, however, that in fields that are typical of the fully quantised vacuum only some of the large monopole loops that are important for confinement have a topological origin. We comment on what this may imply for the role of instantons in confinement and chiral symmetry breaking.
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