collaborators

5 papers

hep-th2026

Thick oriented and nonoriented center-vortex configurations with fractional topological charge lumps

David R. Junior, L. E. Oxman, Gustavo M. Simões

Mixed oriented and nonoriented center vortices are known to generate nontrivial topological charge. However, most previous analyses have been restricted to Abelian-projected thin c…

hep-th2026

Geometric Rényi mutual information induced by localized particle excitations in quantum field theory

Willy A. Izquierdo, David R. Junior, Gastão Krein

Quantum field theory exhibits rich spatial correlation structures even in the vacuum, where entanglement entropy between regions scales with the area of their shared boundary. Whil…

hep-th2026

Study of the Emergence of a Gluon Mass Scale from Center Vortices Using a Wave-Functional Formalism

David R. Junior, Gastão Krein, Luis E. Oxman +1

Lattice simulations and theoretical analyses consistently identify center vortices and monopoles as key nonperturbative configurations in Yang-Mills theory. In the continuum, the e…

hep-th2025

Flux tube formation and the Weingarten representation of center vortices and chains

David R. Junior, Luis E. Oxman

We review some recent results regarding the formulation of mixed ensembles of oriented and nonoriented center vortices based on the Weingarten representation for the sum over surfa…

hep-th2025

Ensembles of center vortices and chains: Insights from a natural lattice framework

D. R. Junior, L. E. Oxman

A scenario to understand the asymptotic properties of confinement between quark probes, based on a 4D mixed ensemble of percolating center-vortex worldsurfaces and chains, was init…