Center clusters in the Yang-Mills vacuum

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Gattringer, Christof ^a   Schmidt, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Confinement; Lattice gauge field theories; Spontaneous symmetry breaking

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053113538     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)051     Document Type: Article

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