Free energy of an SU(2) monopole-antimonopole pair

Abstract

We induce an external $Z_2$ monopole-antimonopole pair in an SU(2) lattice gauge system and measure its free energy as a way to probe the vacuum structure. We discuss the motivation and computational methodology of the investigation and illustrate our preliminary results.

LATTICE98(confine)

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