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Description
The dual superconductor picture is one of the most promising scenarios for quark confinement. To investigate this picture in a gauge-invariant manner, we have proposed a new formulation of Yang-Mills theory on the lattice, named the decomposition method, so that the so-called restricted field obtained from the gauge-covariant decomposition plays the dominant role in quark confinement. It was known by preceding works that the restricted field dominance is not observed for the Wilson loop in higher representations if the restricted part of the Wilson loop is extracted by adopting the Abelian projection or the field decomposition naively in the same way as in the fundamental representation.
Recently, by the non-Abelian Stokes theorem (NAST) for the Wilson loop operator, we have proposed suitable gauge-invariant operators constructed from the restricted field to reproduce the correct behavior of the original Wilson loop averages for higher representations. We have demonstrated the numerical evidence for the restricted field dominance in the string tension, which means that the string tension extracted from the restricted part of the Wilson loop reproduces the string tension extracted from the original Wilson loop.
In this talk, we focus on the magnetic monopole. According to this picture, magnetic monopoles causing the dual superconductivity are regarded as the dominant degrees of freedom responsible for confinement. With the help of the NAST, we can define the magnetic monopole and the string tension extracted from the magnetic-monopole part of the Wilson loop in a gauge-invariant manner. We will further perform lattice simulations to measure the static potential for quarks in higher representations using the proposed operators and examine the magnetic monopole dominance in the string tension, which means that the string tension extracted from the magnetic-monopole part of the Wilson loop reproduces the true string tension from the original Wilson loop.
