Emergent photons and mechanisms of confinement

Jeffrey Giansiracusa, David Lanners, Tin Sulejmanpasic

We numerically study ${\mathbb{Z}}_N$ lattice gauge theories in 4D as prototypical models of systems with ${\mathbb{Z}}_N$ 1-$\text{form symmetry}$. For $N\ge 3$, we provide eviden…