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Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity

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An Introduction to the Confinement Problem

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In a type II superconductor, magnetic fields are collimated into flux tubes known as Abrikosov vortices. If stable magnetic monopoles existed, and could be pair produced within a type II superconductor, then a magnetic flux tube would run between widely separated monopoles and antimonopoles, and the static monopole potential would rise linearly with monopole separation.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    For a review of magnetic monopole solutions in abelian and non-abelian gauge theories, cf. Coleman [1].

  2. 2.

    A factor of electric charge g has been absorbed into the definition of A μ.

  3. 3.

    A rigorous proof of confinement in compact QED3 was later published in [11].

  4. 4.

    The monopole currents actually live on the links of the dual lattice (cf. Chap. 6) in four dimensions.

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Greensite, J. (2010). Monopoles, Calorons, and Dual Superconductivity. In: An Introduction to the Confinement Problem. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 821. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14382-3_8

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