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Ising Model and Z2 Gauge Theory
Topics
Duality and Wilson Loops
Gauge Field Theory
Legendre Transform
Reading
M. Kardar Stat. Theory of Fields ch. 7
J. Greensite: Center vortices, and other scenarios of quark confinement
Kohsuke Yagi, Tetsuo Hatsuda, and Yasuo Miake: QGP: From Big Bang to Little Bang
Cheng & Li: Gauge theory of elementary particle physics
Story Telling Time:
From spins to links and plaquettes
Self-Duality does NOT work in 3D Ising: Low and High T expansions do not match
Low T: theory of faces
total no. of faces = Area
High T: t-theory of links, forming loops / plaquettes
counting no. of links: i.e. perimeter of loop
this will NOT match!
Find a new theory with High T expansion compatible with Low T 3D Ising Model
new variables: links
= dual spinsunit = face at low T 3d Ising, surrounding islands of - in sea of +'s
face formed from links: u, e.g. 4 u's make a plaquette.
glue (via u) faces together to form a cube = low T island
this describes a Z(2) gauge theory
and to Wilson loops
The new theory is NOT supposed to have no Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking.
global Z(2): all
local gauge symmetry: pick a site and flip all the relevant
'slocal order parameter like
will not work!but ''extended'' object like a Wilson loop could...
Wilson loop:
High Temperature
rough notes:
need to cancel out the links of C,
draw plaquettes inside,
each brings in a factor of
, Area times!
Low Temperature
rough notes:
start with all links +'s, including those in C, this gives 1.
Then flip one link to -1, 4 surfaces are affected, hence factor of
.For C, if the flipped link is not one of the
links in C, value of loop unchanged,otherwise it flips the value also.
Spatial Wilson loop: Perimeter law -> Area law from low to high T: sensitive to the phase transition in between!
A glimpse of Gauge Field Theory
from continuum to lattice
pure gauge theory
confinement
Z2 gauge theory in Julia
one of the simplest gauge theory, closely related to 3D (and above) Ising Model
Z2gauge (generic function with 3 methods)
plaq_exact (generic function with 2 methods)
The Polyakov Loops and the Susceptibilities
An order parameter for Z(Nc) SSB
effective order parameter for deconfinement
order parameter is NOT Unique: SUS can also do the job! (and better)
In the end, we will measure
The Polyakov loop susceptibility is constructed via
Why do we need the factor of
(we may need to multiply beta's for better rendering)
How to (re)normalize the Polyakov loop susceptiblity is a research topic!!
Z2gaugePL (generic function with 3 methods)