Detecting monopoles on the lattice

作者:Bonati Claudio*; Di Giacomo Adriano; D'Elia Massimo
来源:Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 2010, 82(9): 094509.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevD.82.094509

摘要

We address the issue why the number and the location of magnetic monopoles detected on lattice configurations are gauge dependent, in contrast with the physical expectation that monopoles have a gauge-invariant status. By use of the non-Abelian Bianchi identities we show that monopoles are gauge-invariant, but the efficiency of the technique usually adopted to detect them depends on the choice of the gauge in a well understood way. In particular we have studied a class of gauges which interpolate between the Maximal Abelian gauge, where all monopoles are observed, and the Landau gauge, where all monopoles escape detection.

  • 出版日期2010-11-24