A numerical study of confinement in compact QED

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1827-1855

  Panero, Marco ^a  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in Gauge Field Theories; Lattice Gauge Field Theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 21444458017     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2005/05/066     Document Type: Article

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