Domain walls and deconfinement: a semiclassical picture of discrete anomaly inflow

A bstract We study the physics of quark deconfinement on domain walls in four-di- mensional supersymmetric SU( N ) Yang-Mills theory, compactified on a small circle with supersymmetric boundary conditions. We numerically examine the properties of BPS domain walls connecting vacua k units apart. We a...

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Published in:The journal of high energy physics 2019-12, Vol.2019 (12), p.1-47, Article 11
Main Authors: Cox, Andrew A., Poppitz, Erich, Wong, Samuel S.Y.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boundary conditions
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Confinement
Discrete Symmetries
Domain walls
Electric flux
Elementary Particles
High energy physics
Inflow
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Relativity Theory
String Theory
Supersymmetric Gauge Theory
Supersymmetry
Wilson,’t Hooft and Polyakov loops
Yang-Mills theory
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Summary:A bstract We study the physics of quark deconfinement on domain walls in four-di- mensional supersymmetric SU( N ) Yang-Mills theory, compactified on a small circle with supersymmetric boundary conditions. We numerically examine the properties of BPS domain walls connecting vacua k units apart. We also determine their electric fluxes and use the results to show that Wilson loops of any nonzero N -ality exhibit perimeter law on all k -walls. Our results confirm and extend, to all N and k , the validity of the semiclassical picture of deconfinement of Anber, Sulejmanpasic and one of us (EP), arXiv:1501.06773 , providing a microscopic explanation of mixed 0-form/1-form anomaly inflow.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP12(2019)011