Emergent inert adjoint scalar field in SU(2) Yang-Mills thermodynamics due to coarse-grained topological fluctuation

  • We compute the phase and the modulus of an energy- and pressure-free, composite, adjoint, and inert field φ in an SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at large temperatures. This field is physically relevant in describing part of the ground-state structure and the quasiparticle masses of excitations. The field φ possesses nontrivial S1-winding on the group manifold S3. Even at asymptotically high temperatures, where the theory reaches its Stefan-Boltzmann limit, the field φ, though strongly power suppressed, is conceptually relevant: its presence resolves the infrared problem of thermal perturbation theory.

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Author:Ulrich Herbst, Ralf Hofmann
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-259438
DOI:https://doi.org/10.5402/2012/373121
ISSN:2090-7427
Parent Title (English):ISRN High Energy Physics
Publisher:International Scholarly Research Network
Place of publication:New York, NY
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2012/09/18
Date of first Publication:2011/12/06
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2012/09/18
Volume:2012
Issue:Article ID 373121
Page Number:20
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Copyright (c) 2012 U. Herbst and R. Hofmann. This is an open access article distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and
reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
HeBIS-PPN:358062969
Institutes:Physik
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik
Sammlungen:Universitätspublikationen
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0