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V. G. Bornyakov

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Study of thermal monopoles in lattice QCD

The properties of the thermal Abelian color-magnetic monopoles in the maximally Abelian gauge are studied in the vicinity of the confinement-deconfinement phase transition in the lattice $SU(3)$ gluodynamics and lattice QCD. We compute the density and interaction parameters of the thermal monopoles. We find that the density of the thermal monopoles $ρ(T)$ jumps up near the transition temperature $T_c$. Additionally we present new results on the percolation transition in $SU(3)$ gluodynamics which is known to coincide in gluodynamics with the confinement-deconfinement phase transition.

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Gluon Propagators in 3D SU(2) Theory and Effects of Gribov Copies

Infrared behavior of the Landau gauge gluon propagators is studied numerically in the 3d SU(2) gauge theory on the lattice. A special accent is made on the study of Gribov copy effect. For this study we employ an efficient gauge-fixing algorithm and a large number of gauge copies (up to 280 copies per configuration). It is shown that, in the deep infrared region, the Gribov copy effects are very significant. Also we show that, in the infinite-volume limit, the zero-momentum value of the propagator does not vanish.

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Topology across the finite temperature transition studied by overimproved cooling in gluodynamics and QCD

Gluodynamics and two-flavor QCD at non-zero temperature are studied with the so-called overimproved cooling technique under which caloron solutions may remain stable. We consider topological configurations either at the first occuring stable plateau of topological charge or at the first (anti)selfdual plateau and find the corresponding topological susceptibility at various temperatures on both sides of the thermal transition or crossover. In pure gluodynamics the topological susceptibility drops sharply at the deconfinement temperature while in full QCD it decreases smoothly at temperatures above the pseudocritical one. The results are close to those calculated by other methods. We interpret our findings in terms of the (in)stability of calorons with non-trivial holonomy and their dyon constituents against overimproved cooling.

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Abelian monopoles in finite temperature lattice SU(2) gluodynamics: first study with improved action

The properties of the thermal Abelian color-magnetic monopoles in the maximally Abelian gauge are studied in the deconfinement phase of the lattice SU(2) gluodynamics. To check universality of the monopole properties we employ the tadpole improved Symanzik action. The simulated annealing algorithm combined with multiple gauge copies is applied for fixing the maximally Abelian gauge to avoid effects of Gribov copies. We compute the density, interaction parameters, thermal mass and chemical potential of the thermal Abelian monopoles in the temperature range between Tc and 3Tc. In comparison with earlier findings our results for these quantities are improved either with respect to effects of Gribov copies or with respect to lattice artifacts.

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Study of the thermal abelian monopoles with proper gauge fixing

The properties of the thermal abelian monopoles are studied in the deconfinement phase of the SU(2) gluodynamics. To remove effects of Gribov copies the simulated annealing algorithm is applied to fix the maximally abelian gauge. Computing the density of the thermal abelian monopoles in the temperature range between 1.5T_c and 6.9T_c we show, by comparison with earlier results, that the Gribov copies effects might be as high as 20% making proper gauge fixing mandatory. We find that in the infinite temperature limit the monopole density converges to its value in 3-dimensional theory. To study the interaction between monopoles we calculate the monopole-monopole and monopole-antimonopole correlators at different temperatures in the region (1.5T_c, 6.9T_c). Using the result of this study we determine the screening mass, monopole-monopole coupling constant, monopole size and monopole mass. In addition we check the continuum limit of our results.

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Thermal Abelian monopoles as selfdual dyons

The properties of the thermal Abelian monopoles are studied in the deconfinement phase of the SU(2) gluodynamics. To remove effects of Gribov copies the simulated annealing algorithm is applied to fix the maximally Abelian gauge. To study monopole profile we complete the first computations of excess of the nonabelian action density as a function of the distance from the center of the thermal Abelian monopole. We have found that starting from the distances $\approx$ 2 lattice spacings the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic action densities created by monopole are equal to each other, from what we draw a conclusion that monopole is a dyon. Furthermore, we find that the chromoelectric and chromomagnetic fields decrease exponentially with increasing distance. These findings were confirmed for different temperatures in the range $T/T_c \in (1.5, 4.8)$.

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Lattice QCD gluon propagators near transition temperature

Landau gauge gluon propagators are studied numerically in the SU(3) gluodynamics as well as in the full QCD with the number of flavors $n_F=2$ using efficient gauge fixing technique. We compare these propagators at temperatures very close to the transition point in two phases : confinement and deconfinement. The electric mass $m_E$ has been determined from the momentum space longitudinal gluon propagator. Gribov copy effects are found to be rather strong in the gluodynamics, while in the full QCD case they are weak ("Gribov noise"). Also we analyse finite volume dependence of the transverse and longitudinal propagators.

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Finite temperature phase transition with two flavors of improved Wilson fermions

The critical temperature is computed for N_f = 2 dynamical flavors of nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions. The new simulations are performed on lattices 40^3 x 14 with lattice spacing and pion mass about 0.08 fm and 200 MeV, respectively. We find the deconfinement and chiral phase transitions to coincide within numerical precision. Our results are in broad agreement with a second order phase transition in the chiral limit. The critical temperature at the physical quark mass is found to be T_c = 172(3)(6) MeV.

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SU(2) lattice gluon propagators at finite temperatures in the deep infrared region and Gribov copy effects

We study numerically the SU(2) Landau gauge transverse and longitudinal gluon propagators at non-zero temperatures T both in confinement and deconfinement phases. The special attention is paid to the Gribov copy effects in the IR-region. Applying powerful gauge fixing algorithm we find that the Gribov copy effects for the transverse propagator D_T(p) are very strong in the infrared, while the longitudinal propagator D_L(p) shows very weak (if any) Gribov copy dependence. The value D_T(0) tends to decrease with growing lattice size; however, D_T(0) is non-zero in the infinite volume limit, in disagreement with the suggestion made in [1]. We show that in the infrared region D_T(p) is not consistent with the pole-type formula not only in the deconfinement phase but also for T < T_c. We introduce new definition of the magnetic infrared mass scale ('magnetic screening mass') m_M. The electric mass m_E has been determined from the momentum space longitudinal gluon propagator. We study also the (finite) volume and temperature dependence of the propagators as well as discretization errors.

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Probing the finite temperature phase transition with Nf=2 nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions

The critical temperature and the nature of the QCD finite temperature phase transition are determined for Nf=2 dynamical flavors of nonperturbatively improved Wilson fermions. The calculations are performed on large lattices with temporal extents Nt=12, 10 and 8, and lattice spacings down to a = 0.075 fm. We find the deconfinement and chiral phasetransitions to take place at the same temperature. Our results are in broad agreement with a second order phase transition in the chiral limit. The critical temperature at the physical quark mass is found to be Tc = 174(3)(6) MeV.

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SU(2) lattice gluon propagator: continuum limit, finite-volume effects and infrared mass scale m_IR

We study the scaling behavior and finite (physical) volume effects as well as the Gribov copy dependence of the SU(2) Landau gauge gluon propagator on the lattice. Our physical lattice sizes range from $(3.0 \mathrm{fm})^4$ to $(7.3 \mathrm{fm})^4$. Considering lattices with decreasing lattice spacing but fixed physical volume we confirm (non-perturbative) multiplicative renormalizability and the approach to the {\it continuum limit} for the renormalized gluon propagator $D_{ren}(p)$ at momenta $|p| \ageq 0.6$ GeV >. The finite-volume effects and Gribov copy influence turn out small in this region. On the contrary, in the deeper infrared we found the Gribov copy influence strong and finite-volume effects, which still require special attention. The gluon propagator does not seem to be consistent with a simple pole-like behavior $\sim (p^2+m_g^2)^{-1}$ for momenta $|p| \aleq 0.6$ GeV. Instead, a Gaussian-type fit works very well in this region. From its width - for a physical volume $(5.0 \mathrm{fm})^4$ - we estimate a corresponding infrared (mass) scale to be $m_\mathrm{IR} \sim 0.7 $ GeV.

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The dyonic picture of topological objects in the deconfined phase

In the deconfinement phase of quenched SU(2) Yang-Mills theory the spectrum and localization properties of the eigenmodes of the overlap Dirac operator with antiperiodic boundary conditions are strongly dependent on the sign of the average Polyakov loop, $ $. For $ > 0$ a gap appears with only few, highly localized topological zero and near-zero modes separated from the rest of the spectrum. Instead of a gap, for $ < 0$ a high spectral density of relatively delocalized near-zero modes is observed. In an ensemble of positive $ $, the same difference of the spectrum appears under a change of fermionic boundary conditions. We argue that this effect and other properties of near-zero modes can be explained through the asymmetric properties and the different abundance of dyons and antidyons -- topological objects also known to appear, however in a symmetric form, in the confinement phase at $T < T_c$ as constituents of calorons with maximally nontrivial holonomy.

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The topological structure of SU(2) gluodynamics at T > 0 : an analysis using the Symanzik action and Neuberger overlap fermions

We study SU(2) gluodynamics at finite temperature on both sides of the deconfining phase transition. We create the lattice ensembles using the tree-level tadpole-improved Symanzik action. The Neuberger overlap Dirac operator is used to determine the following three aspects of vacuum structure: (i) The topological susceptibility is evaluated at various temperatures across the phase transition, (ii) the overlap fermion spectral density is determined and found to depend on the Polyakov loop above the phase transition and (iii) the corresponding localization properties of low-lying eigenmodes are investigated. Finally, we compare with zero temperature results.

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Infrared behavior and Gribov ambiguity in SU(2) lattice gauge theory

For SU(2) lattice gauge theory we study numerically the infrared behavior of the Landau gauge ghost and gluon propagators with the special accent on the Gribov copy dependence. Applying a very efficient gauge fixing procedure and generating up to 80 gauge copies we find that the Gribov copy effect for both propagators is essential in the infrared. In particular, our best copy dressing function of the ghost propagator approaches a plateau in the infrared, while for the random first copy it still grows. Our best copy zero-momentum gluon propagator shows a tendency to decrease with growing lattice size which excludes singular solutions. Our results look compatible with the so-called decoupling solution with a non-singular gluon propagator. However, we do not yet consider the Gribov copy problem to be finally resolved.

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Lattice results on gluon and ghost propagators in Landau gauge

We present clear evidence of strong effects of Gribov copies in Landau gauge gluon and ghost propagators computed on the lattice at small momenta by employing a new approach to Landau gauge fixing and a more effective numerical algorithm. It is further shown that the new approach substantially decreases notorious finite-volume effects.

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Spatial string tension in $N_f=2$ lattice QCD at finite temperature

The spatial string tension across a crossover from the low temperature phase to the high temperature phase is computed in QCD with two flavors of non-perturbatively improved Wilson fermions at small lattice spacing a \sim 0.12fm. We find that in the low temperature phase spatial string tension agrees well with zero temperature string tension. Furthermore, it does not show increasing for temperatures up to T = 1.36 T_{pc}, the highest temperature considered. Our results agree with some theoretical predictions.

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On the interrelation between monopoles, vortices, topological charge and chiral symmetry breaking: an analysis using overlap fermions for SU(2)

We study the properties of configurations from which P-vortices on one hand or Abelian monopoles on the other hand have been removed. We find that the zero modes and the band of non-zero modes close to zero disappear from the spectrum of the overlap Dirac operator, confirming the absence of topological charge and quark condensate. The different behavior of the modified ensembles under smearing compared to the unmodified Monte Carlo ensemble corroborates these findings. The gluonic topological susceptibility rapidly approaches zero in accordance with Q_{index}=0. The remaining (ultraviolet) monopoles without vortices and -- to a less extent -- the remaining vortices without monopoles are unstable under smearing whereas smearing of the unmodified Monte Carlo ensemble effects the monopoles and vortices only by smoothing, reducing the density only slightly.

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