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We provide evidence for partial deconfinement — the deconfinement of a SU(M) subgroup of the SU(N) gauge group — by using lattice Monte Carlo simulations. We take matrix models as concrete examples. By appropriately fixing the gauge, we observe that the M × M submatrices deconfine. This gives direct evidence for partial deconfinement at strong coupling. We discuss the applications to QCD and holography.
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Watanabe, H., Bergner, G., Bodendorfer, N. et al. Partial deconfinement at strong coupling on the lattice. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP02(2021)004
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