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Confining strings in the reconfined phase of trace deformed three dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
Abstract
Adding a trace deformation to the Yang-Mills action keeps the theory confining above the standard deconfinement temperature, in the so-called reconfined phase. We study the confining flux tube of the trace-deformed SU(2) theory in three dimensions with lattice simulations of Polyakov loop correlators. As the deformation increases, the ground state energy departs from the usual Nambu-Gotō effective string description, and deep in the reconfined phase the data are accurately described by the Polchinski-Yang rigid string, an effective string dominated by an extrinsic-curvature term.
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BibTeX
@misc{bonati2026confining,
title = {{Confining strings in the reconfined phase of trace deformed three dimensional $\mathrmSU(2)$ Yang-Mills theory}},
author = {Claudio Bonati and Michele Caselle and Alessio Negro and Dario Panfalone and Lorenzo Verzichelli},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2611.03874},
eprint = {2611.03874},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03874},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Confining strings in the reconfined phase of trace deformed three dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory
AU - Claudio Bonati
AU - Michele Caselle
AU - Alessio Negro
AU - Dario Panfalone
AU - Lorenzo Verzichelli
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/11/02
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2611.03874
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03874
AB - Adding a trace deformation to the Yang-Mills action keeps the theory confining above the standard deconfinement temperature, in the so-called reconfined phase. We study the confining flux tube of the trace-deformed SU(2) theory in three dimensions with lattice simulations of Polyakov loop correlators. As the deformation increases, the ground state energy departs from the usual Nambu-Gotō effective string description, and deep in the reconfined phase the data are accurately described by the Polchinski-Yang rigid string, an effective string dominated by an extrinsic-curvature term.
ER -