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A list of failed attempts towards a proof of confinement [closed]
Can one give a list of failed or open attempts (not necessarily Supersymmetric) towards a proof of confinement in 4d regarding YM or QCD?
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The commutation relations of photon and gluon?
In QED, the photon field has the following commutation relations:
\begin{equation}
[A^{\mu}(t,\vec{x}),A^{\nu}(t,\vec{y})]=0, \tag{1}
\end{equation}
where $A^{\mu}(t,\vec{x})$ is the photon filed. ...
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Asymptotic Freedom QCD
I'm trying to understand the derivation of asymptotic freedom with the renormalisation group equations. I'm reading Taizo Muta's book on QCD. What I don't understand is how he obtains the last ...
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Visualization of a gauge field with non-null winding number
In QCD you may add the term $\mathcal{L}_{\theta} = \theta\dfrac{g^2}{16\pi^2} \text{Tr}F\tilde{F}$, which turns out to be a total derivative. Now, it can be proven that the action of this lagrangian ...
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What makes electric and magnetic fields in Yang-Mills theories gauge co-variant?
Specifically in QCD, why is it so?
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Wilson loop is not an element of $\mathrm{SU}(3)$ in color deconfinement
The center symmetry in QCD comes from the
$$a\ \mathcal{P}\mathrm{exp}\left(ig_s \int_C dx^\mu \ A_\mu(x)\right) a^{-1} = \mathcal{P}\mathrm{exp}\left(ig_s \int_C dx^\mu \ A_\mu(x)\right),$$
where $C$ ...
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Yang-Mills mass gap caused by gluonballs or because dark matter WIMPs?
Yang-Mills quantum field theory predicts the existence of the lightest massive Bosonic (i.e. integer spin) particle.
This massive Boson will be much lighter than the $W$ and $Z$ Boson and therefore ...
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How to derive the gauge invariance of Yang-Mills action with external source?
In the Faddeev-Popov procedure of path integral of
$$
Z[J] = \int [DA] e^{iS(A,J)},
\quad S(A,J)= \int d^4x [-\frac{1}{4}F^{a\mu\nu}F_{a\mu\nu} + J^{a\mu}A_{a\mu} ]
$$
we have used that $S(A,J)$ is ...
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Is there any physical reason behind the choice of Lie group in a Yang-Mills theory?
A Yang-Mills theory can be constructed for any Lie group that is compact and semisimple. The motivation behind this is discussed in this question. Is there any physical reason we choose $SU(3)$ or $U(...
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Subleading correction to the gluon propagator in large $N$ expansion
I was reading Callan, Coote and Gross' paper on 2-dimensional QCD, where they show that the model that 't Hooft proposes in his work indeed produces quark confinement. In section VIII, they analyze ...
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Possible cases of matter fields for $SU(2)$ theory which retains asymptotic freedom?
Let us assume $4$ spacetime dimensions.
QCD, the $SU(3)$ gauge theory with quarks as the matter fields, have the asymptotic freedom property as long as there are 16 quark flavors of mass below the ...
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Why is it justified to focus on gauge transformations constant at spatial infinity in QCD instantons?
In the context of Yang-Mills theories and QCD instantons, much of the literature and conventional treatment hinges on the consideration of gauge transformations that remain constant at spatial ...
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Why is there only one coupling constant in Yang-Mills theory? Why are gluon self-coupling and gluon-matter coupling constants the same?
Is it non-trivial that the coupling constant $g$ in gluon self-interaction terms is the same as the coupling constant $g$ in gluon-fermion interaction term in Yang-Mills theory?
Pure Yang-Mills theory ...
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Theta vacua eigenstates
I have been trying to prove the very simple result that the eigenstates of an operator with matrix elements
$$
\langle n^\prime | H | n \rangle \sim g(|n^\prime-n|),
$$
in a basis $\{|n\rangle\}^{+\...
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One-loop renormalization of the gauge coupling
Quoting Yuji Tachikawa, chapter 3 of "${\cal N}=2$ Supersymmetric Dynamics for Pedestrians":
Recall the one-loop renormalization of the gauge coupling in a general Lagrangian field theory $$...
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Can I switch the convention of QCD by replacing coupling constant $g$ with $-g$?
There are two equivalent conventions in QCD that give two different definitions of the covariant derivative operator: ${D_\mu } = {\partial _\mu } - {\rm{i}}gA_\mu ^\alpha {T_\alpha }$ and ${D_\mu } = ...
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What is the physical meaning of the large $N$ expansion?
I know about the $1/N$ expansion for some time. Apart from the fact that as Witten suggests, it can be the correct expansion parameter of QCD Baryons in the $1/N$ Expansion (in a parallel that he ...
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Physical interpretation of the asymptotics of partition function in string theory
I would like to understand the physical interpretation of the asymptotic expansion of a partition function. The QCD partition function with gauge group $SU(N)$ as $N$ is large has been shown by Gross ...
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Is the concept of bicolored gluons mathematically precise/meaningful? Please explain
Each flavour of quark carries a colour quantum number: red, green or blue. I know what it means mathematically. But elementary textbooks (e.g, particle physics by Griffiths) also say that gluons are ...
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What would the force arising from an $SU(4)$ gauge field operate like? (As in, how many charges, whether the boson would interact with the force, etc)
Heyo, i'm new to this all, and deadly curious what this would look like. If this isn't specific enough, lemme know.
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What does the Pontryagin index do in BPST instanton (solution to Yang-Mills theory)?
$$
\mathcal L = -\frac12\mathrm{Tr}\ F_{\mu\nu}F^{\mu\nu}+i\bar\psi\gamma^\mu D_\mu\psi
$$
We take this Lagrangian for QCD, after this I need to calculate BPST instanton with topological Pontryagin ...
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What makes the (non-abelian) strong interaction so special that it leads to confinement?
The strong interaction has a coupling constant of $\alpha_s(91GeV)\approx 0.1$ whereas the weak interaction has a much lower coupling constant $\alpha_w \approx 10^{-6}$. Both theories are non-abelian ...
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The 1-loop anomalous dimension of massless quark field for $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $n_f$ quark flavours
Considering $SU(N)$ gauge theory with $n_f$ massless quarks
I want to find the anomalous dimension to order of 1-loop of the massless quark field, that defined by: $$\gamma_q(g^{(R)})=\frac{1}{2Z_q}\...
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How many colors really are there in QCD?
In abelian gauge theory (electrodynamics), the matter fields transform like (please correct me if I am wrong)
$$
|\psi\rangle\rightarrow e^{in\theta(x)}|\psi\rangle\tag{1}
$$
under a gauge ...
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Do the “$SU(3)$ colors” live in a 3-dimensional vector space?
Previously I asked a question about the visualized colors:
Do the "colors" live in a 3-dimensional vector space?
(My earlier question is unfortunately closed)
Now I like to ask the “$SU(3)$ ...
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Abelian theories with more than one charge
I have a question about the non-abelian character of QCD. In order to write a gauge-invariant Lagrangian, there must be a term with the strength tensor $X^{\mu\nu}_{a}X_{\mu\nu}^{a}$ where
$$
X^a_{\mu\...
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Misunderstanding the dimension of QCD
From my point of view, the definition of the tension tensor is contradictory.
$$F_{\mu \nu}=\partial_{\mu} A_{\nu}-\partial_{\nu} A_{\mu} +ig[A_{\mu},A_{\nu}]$$
$$[A_{\mu}]=\frac{1}{cm \times g};[F_{\...
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QCD energy scale $\Lambda_{\rm MS} $, $\Lambda_{\rm QCD}$, ...?
Why there seems to be different conventions of QCD energy scales? Is that due to the running coupling?
For example in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling_constant#QCD_scale:
$$
\Lambda_{\...
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Polyakov loops and Wilson loops as order parameters
At zero temperature, the confinement/deconfinement criterion is the area/length law of the following non-local parameter called the Wilson loop:
\begin{eqnarray}
W=\text{Tr}\exp\left(\oint_CA_idx^i\...
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Understanding the proof of the "Photon-Decoupling Identity" for colour-ordered Yang-Mills amplitudes
Problem:
To prove the Photon-Decoupling Identity for colour-ordered Yang-Mills amplitudes:
$$0= A(1,2,3,...,n)+A(2,1,3,...,n)+...+A(2,3,...,1,n) \tag{1}$$
I know I must use $(2)$, which expresses ...
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