Speaker
Prof.
Hugo Reinhardt
(Tübingen University)
Description
The branching of center vortices in SU(3) Yang-Mills theory in maximal center gauge is analyzed. When properly normalized, one can define a branching probability that turns out to be independent of the lattice spacing (in the limited scaling window studied here). The branching probability shows a rapid change at the deconfinement phase transition which is much more pronounced in space slices of the lattice as compared to time slices. Though not a strict order parameter (in the sense that it vanishes in one phase) the branching probability is thus found to be a reliable indicator for both the location of the critical temperature and the geometric re-arrangement of vortex matter across the deconfinement phase transition
Author
Prof.
Hugo Reinhardt
(Tübingen University)
Co-authors
Dr
Markus Quandt
Mr
Felix Sprengler
