Non-abelian Vortex and Confinement
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چکیده
We discuss general properties and possible types of magnetic vortices in non-Abelian gauge theories (we consider here G = SU(N), SO(N), USp(2N)) in the Higgs phase. The sources of such vortices carry “fractional” quantum numbers such as Zn charge (for SU(N)), but also full non-Abelian charges of the dual gauge group. If such a model is re-interpreted as an effective dual magnetic theory of the fundamental (electric) theory, the non-Abelian vortices provide for the mechanism of quark-confinement in the latter. We compare this mechanism with the dynamical Abelian mechanism for QCD suggested by ’t Hooft and Mandelstam.
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