Microscopic structure of magnetic bions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Anber, Mohamed M ^a   Poppitz, Erich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confinement; Duality in gauge field theories; Field theories in lower dimensions; Solitons monopoles and instantons

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053135316     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP06(2011)136     Document Type: Article

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