3 papers
hep-th2026
Dynamical Quarks in the Ensemble of Center Vortices with Monopole Defects: Color Confinement Beyond External Probes
Luis E. Oxman
We consider the interaction of dynamical quarks with the ensemble of oriented and nonoriented center vortices proposed to describe flux-tube formation between quark probes in pure…
hep-lat2026
Cartan Fluxes in Lattice Gauge Theory
Tereza Mendes, Luis E. Oxman, Gustavo M. Simões +1
We propose and analyze a new method of detecting center vortices and monopoles in lattice Yang-Mills theory. This procedure is sensitive to the intrinsic degeneracy of the center c…
hep-th2026
The 't Hooft loop from a center-vortex wave functional
D. R. Junior, L. E. Oxman, H. Reinhardt
Previously, we proposed an infrared vacuum wave functional for Yang-Mills theory peaked at thin center vortices and showed that it yields an area law for the Wilson loop. I…