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Spontaneous colour confinement

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The long-range order of the confinement phase of QCD is characterized by a macroscopic field (order parameter) transforming as a general Lorentz symmetric tensor, and as a (8, 8) representation of the SU(3)×SU(3) group. The resulting Ginzburg-Landau chromodynamics has the condensate vacuum behaving like a Lorentz-invariant dual colour superconductor capable of describing the spontaneous formation of the colourless domains (hadrons) immersed in the confining medium.

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Dedicated to Academician Václav Votruba on the occasion of his eightieth birthday.

It gives me much pleasure to express my gratitude to Professor Votruba for introducing me into his beloved field of elementary-particle physics, and for a great number of pleasant and informative discussions.

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Hošek, J. Spontaneous colour confinement. Czech J Phys 40, 1205–1215 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01605049

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