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most citedCentre vortex evidence for a second finite-temperature QCD transition

14 citations · 32 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

hep-lat2026

Understanding the structure of nucleon excitations from their wavefunctions

Jackson A. Mickley, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber +1

Relativistic wavefunctions of nucleon excitations are scrutinised to understand their node structure and the underlying role of local interpolating fields in generating the nucleon…

hep-lat2025

Novel insight into centre-vortex geometry in four dimensions

Jackson A. Mickley, Chris Allton, Ryan Bignell +1

Centre-vortex surfaces are mapped out in four dimensions within the framework of SU(3) lattice gauge theory to understand the role of secondary loops that develop in three-dimensio…

hep-lat2025

Center vortices in the novel phase of staggered fermions

Jackson A. Mickley, Derek B. Leinweber, Daniel Nogradi

The geometry of center vortices is studied in the novel lattice-artefact phase that appears with staggered fermions to elucidate any insight provided by the center-vortex degrees o…

hep-lat2025

Centre vortices in thermal lattice QCD with dynamical fermions

Jackson Mickley, Chris Allton, Ryan Bignell +1

Evidence for a second finite-temperature transition in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is revealed through the study of centre vortex geometry and its temperature-dependent evolution.…

hep-lat2025

The temperature dependence of fractional topological charge objects

Jackson A. Mickley, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber

We present a novel method for defining the topological charge contained within distinct topological objects in the nontrivial ground-state fields of SU(N) lattice gauge theory. Suc…

hep-lat2025

SU(3) centre vortex geometry at finite temperature

Jackson A. Mickley, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber

The importance of examining the structure of centre-vortex matter in the ground-state fields of nonabelian gauge-field theory has been demonstrated in the recent centre-vortex base…

hep-lat2025★ 1 cited

Structure of center-vortex matter in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory

Jackson A. Mickley, Derek B. Leinweber, Luis E. Oxman

The structure of center vortices is studied in SU(4) Yang-Mills theory for the first time to illuminate the interplay between elementary (center charge ) and doubly charged…

hep-lat2025★ 4 cited

Center vortices and the conformal window

J. A. Mickley, D. B. Leinweber, D. Nogradi

A novel approach for estimating the lower end of the conformal window is presented through the study of center vortex geometry and its dependence on the number of…

hep-lat2024★ 14 cited

Centre vortex evidence for a second finite-temperature QCD transition

Jackson A. Mickley, Chris Allton, Ryan Bignell +1

Evidence for the existence of a second finite-temperature transition in quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is obtained through the study of centre vortex geometry and its evolution with…

hep-lat2024★ 9 cited

Centre vortex geometry at finite temperature

Jackson A. Mickley, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber

The geometry of centre vortices is studied in gauge theory at finite temperature to capture the key structural changes that occur through the deconfinement phase t…

hep-lat2023★ 4 cited

Numerical evidence for fractional topological objects in SU(3) gauge theory

Jackson A. Mickley, Waseem Kamleh, Derek B. Leinweber

The continued development of models that propose the existence of fractional topological objects in the Yang-Mills vacuum has called for a quantitative method to study the topologi…