Confinement-Higgs and deconfinement-Higgs transitions in three-dimensional $Z(2)$ LGT

B. Allés, O. Borisenko, A. Papa

We re-examine by numerical simulation the phase structure of the three-dimensional Abelian lattice gauge theory (LGT) with $Z(2)$ gauge fields coupled to $Z(2)$-valued Higgs fields…